---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for an additional exception when hauling construction aggregates"
description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for an additional exception when hauling construction aggregates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 44"
citation: "Louisiana HB 44 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillip DeVillier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e20a077-013c-4f34-be04-0ed80563ce86"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239829"
source_hash: "761e0665fc2941e32bcb184e82433389922f356ea57dd43d9885f227b0a92ee6"
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 44 (2021) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for an additional exception when hauling construction aggregates

## Version chain

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

1. **HB44 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201628)
2. **HB44 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235953)
3. **HB44 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219763)
4. **HB44 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232640)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#884) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#389) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Phillip DeVillier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-22** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 442. `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 34 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.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-11** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-11** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-03** Reported favorably (8-5).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e20a077-013c-4f34-be04-0ed80563ce86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).