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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX CREDITS: Exempts certain research and development tax credit recipients from detailed examinations by the Department of Economic Development (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "TAX CREDITS: Exempts certain research and development tax credit recipients from detailed examinations by the Department of Economic Development (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 408"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 408 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e816d2d0-6f29-4f9c-b86c-afc443967431"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244331"
+source_hash: "0955e6d75921c0c2fe6f4b1b27044e5aa2b82c0ceadb2cfba07008fb6e2b76a7"
+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 408 (2023) — TAX CREDITS: Exempts certain research and development tax credit recipients from detailed examinations by the Department of Economic Development (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB408 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308577)
+2. **HB408 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332507)
+3. **HB408 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319865)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2452, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319804)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2237, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326027)
+6. **HB408 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330934)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1079) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#474) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#776) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CO-AUTHORS (#777) — **11–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 06/12/2023.
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 350. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023.
+- **2023-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments (15-0). `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.
+- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e816d2d0-6f29-4f9c-b86c-afc443967431`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+