---
type: "Bill"
title: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 648"
citation: "Louisiana HB 648 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa5b9a0c-9173-4356-a7ca-fbb48b29e7ec"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240643"
source_hash: "e8c4c6e6bd16b136a7705358d803ffd254cc9b7df1cf7d0a855c930635f04c19"
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 648 (2021) — TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (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. **HB648 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212352)
2. **HB648 Act 477** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236392)
3. **HB648 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217657)
4. **HB648 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223767)
5. **HB648 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220670)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1618, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217016)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1631, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217081)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1648, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217123)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #1657, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217618)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2139, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220063)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #2218, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220605)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #2498, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222298)
13. **House Floor Amendment, #2678, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223208)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3555, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232473)
15. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2850, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229520)
16. **HB648 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233693)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#875) — **16–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#874) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1139) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 07/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 477. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `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 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **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/fa5b9a0c-9173-4356-a7ca-fbb48b29e7ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).