---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
description: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2021-2022"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 695"
citation: "Louisiana HB 695 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-21"
last_action: "2021-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b1304f0-8704-40de-a6e3-99bbba047c66"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240824"
source_hash: "267b94816e93de6caf25f0454255210473220598dc0b3dd550dfebe10b20956f"
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 695 (2021) — LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2021-2022

## Version chain

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

1. **HB695 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216172)
2. **HB695 Act 117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233373)
3. **HB695 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219850)
4. **HB695 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222164)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1683, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217208)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2084, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219829)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2289, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220928)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1539, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220366)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2443, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226998)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2454, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227059)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2745, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228804)
12. **HB695 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229299)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#561) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#291) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#815) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-07** Effective date: 07/01/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 117. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/28/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2021-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 10 for 5/27.
- **2021-05-25** Rules suspended.
- **2021-05-25** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-10** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-04** Made Special Order of the day No. 6 for 05/06/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments (19-0).
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b1304f0-8704-40de-a6e3-99bbba047c66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).