---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Regional Maintenance and Improvement Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Regional Maintenance and Improvement Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 347"
citation: "Louisiana HB 347 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy P. Kerner"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4e29843-67e8-47f4-8cea-1a58ab2e8569"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240238"
source_hash: "7204acdd13c32379d9bdaba73633251ee0661e409781a3a6e9e34e3283942f56"
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 347 (2021) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Regional Maintenance and Improvement Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB347 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209831)
2. **HB347 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235552)
3. **HB347 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217167)
4. **HB347 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232826)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#143) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#864) — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Timothy P. Kerner — primary (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 315. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** 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 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **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/c4e29843-67e8-47f4-8cea-1a58ab2e8569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).