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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PARISHES: Provides relative to the office of parish secretary-treasurer in Acadia Parish"
+description: "PARISHES: Provides relative to the office of parish secretary-treasurer in Acadia Parish"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 40"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 40 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chance Henry"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d58b5ec0-45ec-4fc6-84bd-49831e011bf3"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247926"
+source_hash: "a653f1c53c52a888fe1488b97dd1f2eeaa41d881d781c8dee0740afdf7bd916d"
+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 40 (2025) — PARISHES: Provides relative to the office of parish secretary-treasurer in Acadia Parish
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB40 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395652)
+2. **HB40 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425010)
+3. **HB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408150)
+4. **HB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418519)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#122) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#376) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chance Henry — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Becomes Act No. 126 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-27** 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`
+- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
+- **2025-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/7/2025.
+- **2025-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d58b5ec0-45ec-4fc6-84bd-49831e011bf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+