---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget (Item #3)"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget (Item #3)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2017 2nd Extraordinary Session"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2017 2nd Extraordinary Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Abramson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-06-12"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cce94d38-7240-49ca-8582-dca0eb525e7e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233033"
source_hash: "2657833b9594ea0864428bad237ec178eeffbc3d8b85a0ff667a7db226dfc1fb"
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 2 (2017 2nd Extraordinary Session) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget (Item #3)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1050753)
2. **HB2 Act 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1053007)
3. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1050864)
4. **HB2 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051265)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #62, Hunter, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051070)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #66, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051079)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #21, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051319)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #37, Morrell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051528)
9. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1051297)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **82–20** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#15) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#20) — **83–8** (pass) · legislature
- AMENDMENT # 62 BY HUNTER, MOTION TO ADOPT (#15) — **26–71** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Neil Abramson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-29** Effective date: 06/29/17.
- **2017-06-29** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 4. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2017-06-16** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2017-06-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2017-06-16** Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 8, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2017-06-16** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2017-06-16** Rules suspended.
- **2017-06-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2017-06-15** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2017-06-14** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2017-06-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2017-06-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2017-06-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/14/17.
- **2017-06-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2017-06-13** Rules suspended.
- **2017-06-13** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2017-06-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cce94d38-7240-49ca-8582-dca0eb525e7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).