---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Housing Authority of New Orleans"
description: "HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Housing Authority of New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 643"
citation: "Louisiana HB 643 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c031f11f-73f7-4eb8-ae31-476352f02b05"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246449"
source_hash: "38abfaac52a62ab83a81d8362b7ecad5a0352d818e7683ed14481be149dd2990"
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 643 (2024) — HOUSING/AUTHORITIES: Provides relative to the membership of the Housing Authority of New Orleans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB643 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352226)
2. **HB643 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379561)
3. **HB643 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364690)
4. **HB643 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368721)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2940, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365284)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3606, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368327)
7. **HB643 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375551)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#810) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#682) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 228. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** 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`
- **2024-05-14** 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`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
- **2024-04-18** Notice given.
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Notice given.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (15-0). `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/c031f11f-73f7-4eb8-ae31-476352f02b05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).