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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials"
+description: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 688"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 688 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a5721af-5680-43aa-912a-56a79d54e5d6"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246514"
+source_hash: "d0c36d8e047ac96aa0b017a0c6afd71ba898c2ebe2c092dfc319abc985c65292"
+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 688 (2024) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB688 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352507)
+2. **HB688 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381924)
+3. **HB688 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371069)
+4. **HB688 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372567)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3790, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369572)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #3999, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370609)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #4051, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371044)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #4105, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371513)
+9. **House Floor Amendment, #4143, Larvadain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371592)
+10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2963, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371363)
+11. **HB688 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378182)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#900) — **64–32** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1118) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 445. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **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`
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 32. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/4a5721af-5680-43aa-912a-56a79d54e5d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+