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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to fire departments and public safety departments or agencies entering into an agreement with group purchasing organizations (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
+description: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to fire departments and public safety departments or agencies entering into an agreement with group purchasing organizations (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 878"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 878 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-06-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8668868-9279-4eb9-a2af-cfc57c8eb0aa"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247073"
+source_hash: "1e29faedd6f6293af59df4c16575c899b69ff1ccc7019c96dc21919318ac3200"
+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 878 (2024) — PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to fire departments and public safety departments or agencies entering into an agreement with group purchasing organizations (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB878 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361073)
+2. **HB878 Act 663** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382688)
+3. **HB878 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376469)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2911, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365135)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #4854, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376438)
+6. **HB878 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381731)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1452) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1469) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- 2/3 vote (#1468) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- To the Senate to consider after 82 day (#1755) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 663. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-06-03** By a vote of 98 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
+- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-06-03** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2024-06-03** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
+- **2024-06-03** Notice House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
+- **2024-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-29** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title, rules suspended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-23** Discharged from the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
+- **2024-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
+- **2024-05-20** Reported with amendments (18-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8668868-9279-4eb9-a2af-cfc57c8eb0aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+