---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9bd9fb5-b0d0-4009-afb6-ef0b96783c29"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240255"
source_hash: "60431ab3e2f4c7f9f8578c10e3c94eccbbf9677f65b76e404978458dec07e577"
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 1 (2021) — APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2021-2022

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209997)
2. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #2451, Geymann, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221922)
3. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #2478, Edmonds, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222080)
4. **HB1 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234490)
5. **HB1 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219898)
6. **HB1 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222105)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1931, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218986)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2015, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219581)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2055, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219729)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2061, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219740)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #2070, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219819)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #2417, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221714)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2526, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228099)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2636, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229328)
15. **HB1 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229613)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#855) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#609) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **102–1** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2451 BY GEYMANN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#284) — **34–61** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Veto message from the Governor received and read.
- **2021-06-10** Veto message received and read.
- **2021-06-07** Effective date: 07/01/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 119. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 105, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-25** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for 5/27.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Read by title. Considered in Committee of the Whole, reported with amendments, amendments adopted.
- **2021-05-04** Made Special Order of the day No. 2 for 05/06/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments (22-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9bd9fb5-b0d0-4009-afb6-ef0b96783c29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).