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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to qualifications for library directors"
+description: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to qualifications for library directors"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 974"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 974 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Josh Carlson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-04-25"
+last_action: "2024-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e8d6bb0-9e83-4235-ac58-d73c55b3beb9"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247410"
+source_hash: "c2570c5a29e1a39adb1881dd114e9c9480326699553284da39604de3cc92a0e5"
+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 974 (2024) — LIBRARIES: Provides relative to qualifications for library directors
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB974 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369219)
+2. **HB974 Act 647** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382376)
+3. **HB974 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369287)
+4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4186, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378256)
+5. **HB974 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379991)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#796) — **65–38** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1591) — **67–28** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1246) — **27–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Josh Carlson — primary (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. 647. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 28, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 65, nays 38. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-25** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 168 reported by the Committee on Education (10-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e8d6bb0-9e83-4235-ac58-d73c55b3beb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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