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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 245"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 245 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75f5d346-5b2c-484f-8dd2-d584c85466fc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235973"
+source_hash: "e38c80d3274333e591d7af6188f07dd097a0cac8934f673c99c6a7cf44bfa3f1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 245 (2019) — PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB245 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119478)
+2. **HB245 Act 155** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143688)
+3. **HB245 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128269)
+4. **HB245 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132680)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2129, Hodges, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130881)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2246, Appel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136433)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2356, Morrell, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137198)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3047, Long, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140326)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3229, Morrell, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141003)
+10. **HB245 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143060)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#907) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#995) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
+- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2019.
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
+- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2019-05-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2019-05-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
+- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
+- **2019-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably (18-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75f5d346-5b2c-484f-8dd2-d584c85466fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+