--- type: "Bill" title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Revenue Stabilization Trust Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)" description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Revenue Stabilization Trust Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2023" identifier: "HB 261" citation: "Louisiana HB 261 (2023)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"] version_count: 6 action_count: 20 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2023-03-28" last_action: "2023-06-12" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d608bf0e-3881-4678-9d87-fa07e7ac4de0" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244133" source_hash: "aea4d0df1e40b65114d36669b0668e960467ffe630a0126e62e849a7ca380b43" 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 261 (2023) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides relative to the Revenue Stabilization Trust Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD RV See Note) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB261 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306397) 2. **HB261 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332496) 3. **HB261 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319726) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #2438, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319511) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #2468, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319709) 6. **HB261 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329188) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#473) — **101–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#612) — **38–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-06-12** Effective date: See Act. - **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 340. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2023-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2023-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2023-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2023-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2023. - **2023-05-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee` - **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023. - **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee` - **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d608bf0e-3881-4678-9d87-fa07e7ac4de0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).