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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish"
+description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 624"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 624 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-04-19"
+last_action: "2023-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6b200f4-9627-4c16-bf9c-bb2571ea6bea"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244818"
+source_hash: "6bd6be8bf0b16e6a3a7daea020f9bf185126cfa2b278b64605bc548798c27851"
+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 624 (2023) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB624 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313422)
+2. **HB624 Act 282** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332444)
+3. **HB624 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321244)
+4. **HB624 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324725)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2833, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321684)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #3101, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323049)
+7. **HB624 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329403)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#704) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#577) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 282. `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`
+- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-22** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
+- **2023-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6b200f4-9627-4c16-bf9c-bb2571ea6bea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+