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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CEMETERIES: Provides relative to cemeteries (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
+description: "CEMETERIES: Provides relative to cemeteries (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 593"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 593 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29e74451-d55a-46b3-8628-3d8226f5693f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244594"
+source_hash: "c141e508391c13f0ebdbef9e340e9fff2f16394d306c5016cb6f27172b3ac311"
+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 593 (2023) — CEMETERIES: Provides relative to cemeteries (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB593 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309937)
+2. **HB593 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332575)
+3. **HB593 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315278)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1478, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313790)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1604, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314578)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1627, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314645)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1724, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315261)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2055, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324647)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2158, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325422)
+10. **HB593 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330892)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#177) — **90–5** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#772) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1101) — **97–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 381. `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 97, nays 2, 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. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2023.
+- **2023-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-24** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29e74451-d55a-46b3-8628-3d8226f5693f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+