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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the \"Austin Bush Memorial Bridge\""
+description: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the \"Austin Bush Memorial Bridge\""
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 648"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 648 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73ec6342-48b4-4312-a9ce-9c23d3462d00"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246454"
+source_hash: "cba297a1920242ca0a2e6a7e5f28bd094c3a96ba75a40cf9d42d4ab03cebd506"
+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 648 (2024) — HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the "Austin Bush Memorial Bridge"
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB648 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352275)
+2. **HB648 Act 82** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375975)
+3. **HB648 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353789)
+4. **HB648 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355242)
+5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #712, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354078)
+6. **HB648 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372546)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#550) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — 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. 82. `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** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-07** Rules suspended. 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/18/2024.
+- **2024-03-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-12** Reported favorably (13-0). `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/73ec6342-48b4-4312-a9ce-9c23d3462d00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+