---
type: "Bill"
title: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to the maximum number of racing days"
description: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to the maximum number of racing days"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 812"
citation: "Louisiana HB 812 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53a3e4e7-66d8-424c-8a92-237c60fd2280"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238756"
source_hash: "6ac907dd05d816725dcbb8945f78ede0f39b8e80bf427fa22c5436d41f1a303c"
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 812 (2020) — RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to the maximum number of racing days

## Version chain

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

1. **HB812 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168059)
2. **HB812 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182510)
3. **HB812 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171323)
4. **HB812 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174698)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1682, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170771)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1790, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171301)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2367, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174495)
8. **HB812 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177745)

## Votes

- HB 812 BY MILLER, D. (#227) — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: See Act.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 326. `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.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.
- **2020-05-25** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** 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/53a3e4e7-66d8-424c-8a92-237c60fd2280`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).