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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
+description: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 544"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 544 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
+version_count: 13
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b93d47ea-acf8-4d78-8983-0579dfa2ae8c"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246302"
+source_hash: "4074285ae120deca873b0833741a54e93171712c88010b521e4174f0796d5598"
+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 544 (2024) — TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB544 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351531)
+2. **HB544 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381954)
+3. **HB544 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361270)
+4. **HB544 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363530)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2173, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360693)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2183, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361053)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2435, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362616)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1512, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361721)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2798, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370451)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2872, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370919)
+11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3450, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373944)
+12. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3010, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371611)
+13. **HB544 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377611)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#311) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1182) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 544 BY BOYD (#667) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 474 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
+- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. 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`
+- **2024-05-07** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b93d47ea-acf8-4d78-8983-0579dfa2ae8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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