---
type: "Bill"
title: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to state income tax withholdings on federal disaster unemployment compensation benefits and increases the maximum weekly benefit amount (EG NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to state income tax withholdings on federal disaster unemployment compensation benefits and increases the maximum weekly benefit amount (EG NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Louisiana HB 183 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/388e72bc-91fa-4569-a229-92f515f49102"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240011"
source_hash: "555232192753e5d48d0f24bc87fe2b7f2618b3fabc79253f503514a52b781c3e"
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 183 (2021) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to state income tax withholdings on federal disaster unemployment compensation benefits and increases the maximum weekly benefit amount (EG NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB183 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206067)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4048, House Adopted, Senate Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234606)
3. **HB183 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235470)
4. **HB183 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219022)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2705, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230104)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3398, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231870)
7. **HB183 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234717)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#263) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#889) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1206) — **39–60** (fail) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1256) — **74–27** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1143) — **32–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 5 nays.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 74, nays 27. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-10** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee report received.
- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-10** Senate conference committee members appointed: Luneau, Reese, and Womack.
- **2021-06-10** Notice the House rejected the Senate amendments; House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-09** House conferees appointed: Brown, Carpenter, and Stefanski.
- **2021-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 39, nays 60, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2021.
- **2021-06-08** Notice given.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/388e72bc-91fa-4569-a229-92f515f49102`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).