---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the designation of highway safety corridors by the Department of Transportation and Development and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development"
description: "HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the designation of highway safety corridors by the Department of Transportation and Development and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 654"
citation: "Louisiana HB 654 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pat Moore"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27aac3ef-a67a-4e4b-81ea-0ec18db45007"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240650"
source_hash: "7e501b68301d388e774401fcb87e18ed43db45a7d116673536a8f4be7b7e5d40"
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 654 (2021) — HIGHWAYS: Provides relative to the designation of highway safety corridors by the Department of Transportation and Development and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development

## Version chain

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

1. **HB654 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212373)
2. **HB654 Act 478** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236393)
3. **HB654 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225541)
4. **HB654 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229623)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3535, Moore, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228654)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3545, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228688)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3580, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228999)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2237, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225959)
9. **HB654 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233029)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#843) — **79–17** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#937) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pat Moore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 06/29/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 478. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-06-01** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Notice given.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-17** Reported with amendments (9-3).
- **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/27aac3ef-a67a-4e4b-81ea-0ec18db45007`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).