---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the Department of Transportation and Development and the State Highway Improvement Fund for the expenditure of money (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the Department of Transportation and Development and the State Highway Improvement Fund for the expenditure of money (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 545"
citation: "Louisiana HB 545 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c7ba1e2-d197-4461-a7f4-0d59abb19e54"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240507"
source_hash: "ed30502b06940e94a1c5d919b9dbd38c1db801ca43691a7b54afd673e9ba95e3"
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 545 (2021) — HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the Department of Transportation and Development and the State Highway Improvement Fund for the expenditure of money (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. **HB545 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211853)
2. **HB545 Act 325** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235641)
3. **HB545 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217327)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1624, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217021)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1660, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217285)
6. **HB545 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232959)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#873) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#165) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** 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 38 yeas and 0 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.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `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/1c7ba1e2-d197-4461-a7f4-0d59abb19e54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).