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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Increases the dollar amount for the exception to public bid law applicable to the purchase of vehicles by local government units"
+description: "PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Increases the dollar amount for the exception to public bid law applicable to the purchase of vehicles by local government units"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 235"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 235 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Coates"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-27"
+last_action: "2024-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6699144-f29b-45c5-92ae-07a83de930f9"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245848"
+source_hash: "df490d0032639c26fe3cd22f91362ed3324193550f7097c3b14c6deddd7560a0"
+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 235 (2024) — PUBLIC CONTRACT/BIDS: Increases the dollar amount for the exception to public bid law applicable to the purchase of vehicles by local government units
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB235 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347739)
+2. **HB235 Act 68** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375925)
+3. **HB235 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355079)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1094, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353555)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1308, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355016)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2080, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366364)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2107, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366510)
+8. **HB235 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372334)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#47) — **100–3** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#886) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kimberly Coates — primary (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 68. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/07/2024.
+- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/2024.
+- **2024-03-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-18** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6699144-f29b-45c5-92ae-07a83de930f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+