---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions"
description: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 596"
citation: "Louisiana HB 596 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5dba500-513f-4923-8607-58c99342e7d5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246379"
source_hash: "25e8628e0d561fc2f75e6e5a9427979e950ec610d793d96aff2b7c2935e382b7"
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 596 (2024) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB596 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351961)
2. **HB596 Act 713** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382735)
3. **HB596 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367042)
4. **HB596 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369970)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3424, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367511)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2203, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367345)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3764, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375538)
8. **HB596 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380268)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#737) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1136) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1561) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 713. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/d5dba500-513f-4923-8607-58c99342e7d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).