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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for $100,000 death benefit for an employee of the Department of Transportation and Development who is killed in a hazardous situation in the course and scope of his employment (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
+description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for $100,000 death benefit for an employee of the Department of Transportation and Development who is killed in a hazardous situation in the course and scope of his employment (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 608"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 608 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Randal L. Gaines"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-04-02"
+last_action: "2021-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25817464-ff42-4d06-9836-bd3e14114e9a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240582"
+source_hash: "a3357da022df025157b6d34b7038e1fa3adf0a8c136879076cf0b547f568f58b"
+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 608 (2021) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for $100,000 death benefit for an employee of the Department of Transportation and Development who is killed in a hazardous situation in the course and scope of his employment (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. **HB608 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212163)
+2. **HB608 Act 475** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236389)
+3. **HB608 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222564)
+4. **HB608 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225430)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2793, Gaines, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223827)
+6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3278, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231202)
+7. **HB608 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233571)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1133) — **74–19** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#829) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#482) — **53–41** (pass) · lower
+- MOTION TO RECONSIDER (#1134) — **72–23** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1135) — **56–42** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Randal L. Gaines — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 06/29/2021.
+- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 475. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 56, nays 42, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, reconsidered.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 74, nays 19, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 53, nays 41. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-17** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-05-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
+- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably (12-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25817464-ff42-4d06-9836-bd3e14114e9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+