---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3b0b419-7aeb-446b-b8ad-88e2d8690b1d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244810"
source_hash: "8a45e0ef1c0bb2b104a04dc9af952b5b09aae8ac87ab9167d54989d88077d5f6"
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 2 (2023) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313314)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4200, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332013)
3. **HB2 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333454)
4. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320968)
5. **HB2 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323846)
6. **HB2 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321863)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2642, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320605)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2737, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321116)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2852, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321782)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2877, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321855)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #3137, Fontenot, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323481)
12. **House Floor Amendment, #3144, Bishop, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323422)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2610, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328254)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2709, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328812)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2721, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328885)
16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2819, Allain, R. L. Bret, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329612)
17. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332084)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#819) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- PREVIOUS QUESTION (#1244) — **87–15** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1038) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1125) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#510) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1245) — **95–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-18** Veto message from the Governor received and read.
- **2023-07-18** Veto message received and read. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-06-30** Effective date: 06/30/2023.
- **2023-06-30** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 465. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/10/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 9. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Allain, Reese, and Cortez.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Bishop, Schexnayder, and Riser.
- **2023-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-06-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2023-06-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Notice given.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-06-01** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2023-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **2023-05-25** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-16** Made Special Order of the day No. 1 for 05/18/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-11** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-11** Reported with amendments (17-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** 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/a3b0b419-7aeb-446b-b8ad-88e2d8690b1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).