---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the definition of \"qualified event\" or \"qualified major event\" as used in the Major Events Incentive Program"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the definition of \"qualified event\" or \"qualified major event\" as used in the Major Events Incentive Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 463"
citation: "Louisiana HB 463 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Bagneris"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58f58a76-da72-4525-b142-21c3adc5143e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236290"
source_hash: "2cfea1213c3c586dad6944424d6f108074fce13540658f7ed59f6e7111bf6382"
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 463 (2019) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the definition of "qualified event" or "qualified major event" as used in the Major Events Incentive Program

## Version chain

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

1. **HB463 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121879)
2. **HB463 Act 233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144096)
3. **HB463 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128984)
4. **HB463 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133589)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1703, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128271)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1800, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128944)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2525, Bagneris, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133207)
8. **HB463 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139594)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#255) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#563) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Bagneris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 233. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** Reported with amendments (17-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58f58a76-da72-4525-b142-21c3adc5143e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).