---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Workforce Investment Council"
description: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Workforce Investment Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 588"
citation: "Louisiana HB 588 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ed38a97-8cb7-4d33-abba-9108ec01a780"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246346"
source_hash: "3650df6f4baaae9a07d89958df20590e52921595a3e2e754c2ddbcfaed06377e"
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 588 (2024) — WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana Workforce Investment Council

## Version chain

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

1. **HB588 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351867)
2. **HB588 Act 623** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382352)
3. **HB588 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360202)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1262, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354627)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1412, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355678)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2047, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360149)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2371, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368292)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2378, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369041)
9. **HB588 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379654)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1502) — **85–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#871) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Raymond Crews — primary (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. 623. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** 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`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ed38a97-8cb7-4d33-abba-9108ec01a780`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).