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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 446"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 446 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8084ec7-47a1-47e8-8ba7-21609537e8f4"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246149"
+source_hash: "53b0090b6ab5d7532332dcac37c50835592e01898c34c5fe47e96eaac4ac1cc2"
+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 446 (2024) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB446 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350822)
+2. **HB446 Act 617** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382346)
+3. **HB446 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362419)
+4. **HB446 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367259)
+5. **HB446 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365505)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2890, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365044)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2968, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365382)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1980, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365728)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4441, Carter, Gary, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381063)
+10. **HB446 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381265)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1413) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#610) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1718) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 617. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-28** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
+- **2024-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-15** Reported with amendments (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2024-04-04** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8084ec7-47a1-47e8-8ba7-21609537e8f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+