---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for the Department of Transportation and Development design-build contracts"
description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for the Department of Transportation and Development design-build contracts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 606"
citation: "Louisiana HB 606 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/176eeede-c396-49bf-8f7e-005fbe26cb04"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240580"
source_hash: "99e2e874a9deadca492b9b410eadaa197451ef94c92fefc0ef7b6c7bb6e59315"
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 606 (2021) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides for the Department of Transportation and Development design-build contracts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB606 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212167)
2. **HB606 Act 346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235676)
3. **HB606 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220261)
4. **HB606 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223482)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1062, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212864)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2086, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219834)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1520, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220317)
8. **HB606 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232932)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#828) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **69–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 06/15/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 346. `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.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/176eeede-c396-49bf-8f7e-005fbe26cb04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).