HB221

2026 Regular Session

HB221 by Representative Michael Echols

HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the new bridge to be constructed over the Mississippi River connecting Louisiana Highway 1 and Louisiana Highway 30 as the "President Donald J. Trump Expressway"

Current Status: Subject to call - Senate referral - Sched. for 4/7/26

Text

House Floor Amendment #2240 LaCombe Adopted

Digest of HB221 Reengrossed

Digest of HB221 Engrossed

Digest of HB221 Original

House Vote on HB 221 FINAL PASSAGE (#51)

Michael Echols (primary)

Date	Chamber	Journal Page	Action
03/25	S	5	Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
03/24	S	4	Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
03/23	H	37	Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
03/23	H	36	Called from the calendar.
03/17	H		Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2026.
03/17	H	14	Notice given.
03/17	H	14	Read by title, returned to the calendar.
03/16	H		Scheduled for floor debate on 03/17/2026.
03/11	H	4	Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
03/10	H	2	Reported favorably (12-2).
03/09	H	33	Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
02/20	H		First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.
02/19	H		Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
02/19	H		Prefiled.