---
type: "Bill"
title: "RACING/HORSE: Provides for payment of horse racing purses"
description: "RACING/HORSE: Provides for payment of horse racing purses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 131"
citation: "Louisiana HB 131 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Boyer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-23"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/001cbcbe-d498-4c90-9df3-27f6095e4931"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245695"
source_hash: "c022d1e075d9233645103aa82198f1efa89924c1f3046979797b53536192865f"
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 131 (2024) — RACING/HORSE: Provides for payment of horse racing purses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB131 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345586)
2. **HB131 Act 598** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382327)
3. **HB131 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368347)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3406, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367435)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3552, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368317)
6. **HB131 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379080)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#779) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1229) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chad Boyer — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 598. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-21** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/001cbcbe-d498-4c90-9df3-27f6095e4931`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).