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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace"
+description: "LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 118"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 118 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Candace N. Newell"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-21"
+last_action: "2024-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/382988aa-9beb-4f18-b64c-394aa1714d90"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245682"
+source_hash: "d9f77281e4d03bc5abea020ca601fa1f9c957bde81436781a9f2da4c8724687c"
+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 118 (2024) — LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB118 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344847)
+2. **HB118 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382277)
+3. **HB118 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370973)
+4. **HB118 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380206)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1306) — **32–2** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#897) — **61–26** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Candace N. Newell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 541. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-07** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 61, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2024.
+- **2024-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
+- **2024-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/382988aa-9beb-4f18-b64c-394aa1714d90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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