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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes a tax credit for restaurants that recycle oyster shells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
+description: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes a tax credit for restaurants that recycle oyster shells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 255"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 255 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-28"
+last_action: "2023-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c82de4d8-b752-4ce8-b1b7-685de51bc024"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244127"
+source_hash: "c5f02517e92f9b3f422016b1521e6de20a631ab366e9fd8030d012651af5f653"
+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 255 (2023) — TAX CREDITS: Establishes a tax credit for restaurants that recycle oyster shells (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB255 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306390)
+2. **HB255 Act 404** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332743)
+3. **HB255 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323061)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2992, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322412)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3091, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323012)
+6. **HB255 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329701)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#791) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mandie Landry — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 404. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c82de4d8-b752-4ce8-b1b7-685de51bc024`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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