---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the Omnibus Bond Act"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the Omnibus Bond Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Louisiana HB 3 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-13"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66efb2d3-9658-466a-8df2-2ef3dd86f9a1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244718"
source_hash: "b943a8e4cbfd3d80b2cad3232d70640b17e9ab5fee3429b793e3b595019a79f2"
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 3 (2023) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the Omnibus Bond Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB3 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311458)
2. **HB3 Act 398** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332736)
3. **HB3 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312139)
4. **HB3 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330192)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#836) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#44) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 06/15/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 398. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** 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`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2023.
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-17** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66efb2d3-9658-466a-8df2-2ef3dd86f9a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).