---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates a law enforcement recruitment incentive fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates a law enforcement recruitment incentive fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 563"
citation: "Louisiana HB 563 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/619d9290-247b-4146-91f0-204aaf70995d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244558"
source_hash: "e13b2566b49e8325146077f133bd5d18cfde93deb5b7faa9dab8362cc57ed87f"
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 563 (2023) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates a law enforcement recruitment incentive fund (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB563 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309810)
2. **HB563 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332570)
3. **HB563 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315067)
4. **HB563 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317764)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1620, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314630)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1660, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314974)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2000, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317092)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #826, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315265)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2736, Price, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328911)
10. **HB563 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331060)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#617) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1039) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#176) — **100–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Schexnayder — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 376. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2023.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-24** Reported with amendments (16-0). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/619d9290-247b-4146-91f0-204aaf70995d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).