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+type: "Bill"
+title: "GAMING: Provides for sports wagering (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
+description: "GAMING: Provides for sports wagering (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 697"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 697 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-22"
+last_action: "2021-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e65e4de-6d5c-470e-ba29-0e5c1db2b1f3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240827"
+source_hash: "28a120d589c23ab4a1b942b743c42f2b5b3485a86bc353ec1f33251dac9df124"
+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 697 (2021) — GAMING: Provides for sports wagering (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB697 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216262)
+2. **HB697 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232717)
+3. **HB697 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216467)
+4. **HB697 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222904)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2152, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220073)
+6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #949, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216773)
+7. **HB697 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227012)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#424) — **32–4** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#335) — **78–24** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Stefanski — primary (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-04** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 80. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-20** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-17** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 24. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
+- **2021-05-05** Notice given.
+- **2021-05-05** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
+- **2021-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-29** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-22** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 628 reported by the Committee on Ways and Means (16-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e65e4de-6d5c-470e-ba29-0e5c1db2b1f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+