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SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 87 2023 Regular Session Robert Mills
KEYWORD AND SUMMARY AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
PLANNING/ZONING. Provides for the jurisdictional boundaries of the Benton
Metropolitan Planning Commission. (8/1/23)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Makes technical changes.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SB 87 Engrossed 2023 Regular Session Robert Mills
Present law provides for a metropolitan planning area consisting of the area located in the
village of Benton and the area lying within a five-mile radius outside of the village of Benton
in the unincorporated part of Bossier Parish. Present law further provides for the creation,
organization, powers, and duties of a metropolitan planning commission to manage the
metropolitan planning area.
Proposed law retains present law and expands the jurisdictional boundaries of the
metropolitan planning area to extend beyond the five-mile radius in present law to include
a larger portion of the unincorporated area of Bossier Parish and proposed law changes the
term "village" to "municipality".
Present law defines the "metropolitan planning commission" to mean the Benton-Parish
Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Proposed law defines the "metropolitan planning commission" to mean the Benton
Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Effective August 1, 2023.
(Amends Act No. 558 of the 1956 R.S.)
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Carla S. Roberts
Attorney