---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Webster Parish"
description: "PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Webster Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Louisiana HB 298 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a24e521-31cc-43e0-9ea8-7df736b7f385"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245935"
source_hash: "c8c9d592e7636bab029d38bc4dca5e1bcbd8ec8a2099ed3eb6da827678f8d4c9"
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 298 (2024) — PROPERTY/PUBLIC: Provides for the transfer of certain state property in Webster Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB298 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348767)
2. **HB298 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373003)
3. **HB298 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358371)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1721, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357456)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1805, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358137)
6. **HB298 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370814)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#191) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#469) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 05/08/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 23. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a24e521-31cc-43e0-9ea8-7df736b7f385`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).