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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Establishes the office of Louisiana Highway Construction (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Establishes the office of Louisiana Highway Construction (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 640"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 640 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Bourriaque"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-16"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac34e3b6-8598-4550-82fb-c446608d8b22"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248843"
+source_hash: "d06201a860bca4df9975011e229bfd6f6b9bc5ea2cbe9ef7c7c393c6c6828ab1"
+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 640 (2025) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Establishes the office of Louisiana Highway Construction (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB640 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406107)
+2. **HB640 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426013)
+3. **HB640 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406317)
+4. **HB640 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411881)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #1695, Bourriaque, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410755)
+6. **HB640 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423915)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#198) — **96–2** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#819) — **16–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#818) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ryan Bourriaque — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 389. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2025-06-09** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
+- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-06** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-05-06** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
+- **2025-04-28** Notice given.
+- **2025-04-28** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
+- **2025-04-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 621 reported by the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works (12-1).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac34e3b6-8598-4550-82fb-c446608d8b22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+