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+type: "Bill"
+title: "GAMING: Provides for requirements to the land-based casino operating contract. (7/1/24)"
+description: "GAMING: Provides for requirements to the land-based casino operating contract. (7/1/24)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 277"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 277 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e3f654-d8da-4d95-98e1-dfc8d6aa7721"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246544"
+source_hash: "074e8d67da3c369fba5ac2f924dadff20e5a85a45ca9cc7b90aaeae1be92d5d1"
+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 SB 277 (2024) — GAMING: Provides for requirements to the land-based casino operating contract. (7/1/24)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB277 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352595)
+2. **SB277 Act 328** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380801)
+3. **SB277 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363930)
+4. **SB277 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366111)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1696, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363040)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1801, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363824)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2014, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365870)
+8. **SB277 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377274)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1229) — **64–32** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#303) — **32–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date 7/1/2024.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 328. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-21** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 32. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
+- **2024-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably (7-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-17** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 4 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-15** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4e3f654-d8da-4d95-98e1-dfc8d6aa7721`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+