---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to public works contracts"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to public works contracts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 220"
citation: "Louisiana HB 220 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d72a0d1-716a-466f-9a53-fafca1fe443b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240062"
source_hash: "de2a586db0c7c811529cd189d9f3f2b2ea9d56c13867af2cb510a776455bfe79"
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 220 (2021) — PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to public works contracts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB220 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207000)
2. **HB220 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235449)
3. **HB220 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222472)
4. **HB220 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225989)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1603, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216945)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2946, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224716)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3563, Morris, Jay, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232553)
8. **HB220 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232885)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#892) — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3563 BY MORRIS, HB 220 BY MILLER, G. (#891) — **16–21** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#522) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 260. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 7 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.
- **2021-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Notice given.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d72a0d1-716a-466f-9a53-fafca1fe443b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).