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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
+description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 695"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 695 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-05-20"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5c7cfb9-1894-4662-9777-62ff55d0a85f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249228"
+source_hash: "c728d1c6670ef4931bda3fa739265a74d4d8424999399eac9af2bdbed762d487"
+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 695 (2025) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB695 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415952)
+2. **HB695 Act 304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425620)
+3. **HB695 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415975)
+4. **HB695 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423519)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#607) — **84–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#795) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 304. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **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.
+- **2025-06-08** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
+- **2025-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 386 reported by the Committee on Commerce (7-6-1).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5c7cfb9-1894-4662-9777-62ff55d0a85f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+