---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control"
description: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 628"
citation: "Louisiana HB 628 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valarie Hodges"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9053558-1c16-471a-be7b-5648d66063ab"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244823"
source_hash: "3436f56553c5787080e936917f8cff93d29a3de35be1e3fa3967e6aaf5fb98c1"
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 628 (2023) — LIBRARIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control

## Version chain

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

1. **HB628 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313510)
2. **HB628 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332517)
3. **HB628 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318596)
4. **HB628 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329689)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#435) — **80–15** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#782) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Valarie Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 359. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/a9053558-1c16-471a-be7b-5648d66063ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).