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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TAX/SALES & USE: Requires sales and use tax exemptions, exclusions, credits, or rebates to apply to both the state and local sales tax bases (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
+description: "TAX/SALES & USE: Requires sales and use tax exemptions, exclusions, credits, or rebates to apply to both the state and local sales tax bases (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 654"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 654 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-23"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf0a39f5-ab87-4c0b-90db-938916af2378"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248921"
+source_hash: "03389b61dea05e90055de0f30ccdb5fd58df12efeedbc5783ba1a366935b9d2a"
+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 654 (2025) — TAX/SALES & USE: Requires sales and use tax exemptions, exclusions, credits, or rebates to apply to both the state and local sales tax bases (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB654 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407560)
+2. **HB654 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425146)
+3. **HB654 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411924)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2084, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410529)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2310, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411841)
+6. **HB654 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421514)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#654) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#347) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 06/08/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 215. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-03** 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`
+- **2025-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
+- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-23** 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/cf0a39f5-ab87-4c0b-90db-938916af2378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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