---
type: "Bill"
title: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the leasing of the 4.9 GHz band (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the leasing of the 4.9 GHz band (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 465"
citation: "Louisiana HB 465 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4c99b86-f7de-49d2-b8ce-39c45c96ae57"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240419"
source_hash: "a1bcd36c22348f920cad3dc6fdde20be1679cd8108287a83235c200ec5f7b229"
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 465 (2021) — TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the leasing of the 4.9 GHz band (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB465 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211516)
2. **HB465 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235318)
3. **HB465 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215006)
4. **HB465 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216264)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1287, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214785)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1289, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214789)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1297, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214968)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1470, Johnson, Mike, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216004)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1482, Jordan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216215)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1565, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220699)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1629, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221079)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1859, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222766)
13. **HB465 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230256)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#431) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#877) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 1482 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#48) — **22–72** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#49) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 237. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-19** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4c99b86-f7de-49d2-b8ce-39c45c96ae57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).