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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 in DeSoto Parish as the \"Chris Gray Memorial Highway\""
+description: "HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 in DeSoto Parish as the \"Chris Gray Memorial Highway\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 343"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 343 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-29"
+last_action: "2023-06-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d00c58ba-0e4c-4697-a10e-a0326352cc63"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244241"
+source_hash: "347a0030dd0a7b6b3a42614c3d404869ad66e36fce4ac351c84dd645936b01a0"
+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 343 (2023) — HIGHWAYS: Redesignates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 in DeSoto Parish as the "Chris Gray Memorial Highway"
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB343 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307852)
+2. **HB343 Act 143** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332111)
+3. **HB343 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311197)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1893, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323462)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1932, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323677)
+6. **HB343 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328285)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#491) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#789) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#29) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 143. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d00c58ba-0e4c-4697-a10e-a0326352cc63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+