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+type: "Bill"
+title: "RAILROADS: Provides for the Rail Infrastructure Improvement Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
+description: "RAILROADS: Provides for the Rail Infrastructure Improvement Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 394"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 394 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Carmody"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/841d3804-8149-441e-a528-2c69ef28a411"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236210"
+source_hash: "7c1dfb4902754779910fd318730292f270b24ca6870ac4310ac3a6da1d9d5737"
+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 394 (2019) — RAILROADS: Provides for the Rail Infrastructure Improvement Program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB394 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121464)
+2. **HB394 Act 222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144084)
+3. **HB394 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128967)
+4. **HB394 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132796)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2075, Carmody, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130562)
+6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1347, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129436)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2772, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138928)
+8. **HB394 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142202)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#231) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#899) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Thomas Carmody — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 222. `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.
+- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
+- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-15** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
+- **2019-05-15** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
+- **2019-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably (11-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/841d3804-8149-441e-a528-2c69ef28a411`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+