---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/WATERWORKS: Provides with respect to the salary of waterworks commissioners"
description: "DISTRICTS/WATERWORKS: Provides with respect to the salary of waterworks commissioners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 640"
citation: "Louisiana HB 640 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f47a853f-0b96-4816-94f8-d9e1eddabea5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238384"
source_hash: "d814a547289bab8f0bdba7aeb42eeffd09b96517ca36547c94fb81e875784129"
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 (2020) — DISTRICTS/WATERWORKS: Provides with respect to the salary of waterworks commissioners

## Version chain

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

1. **HB640 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163919)
2. **HB640 Act 290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182367)
3. **HB640 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170471)
4. **HB640 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173143)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1752, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171004)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2019, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172789)
7. **HB640 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177558)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#499) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 640 BY OWEN, C. (#127) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 290. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f47a853f-0b96-4816-94f8-d9e1eddabea5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).