--- type: "Bill" title: "MUNICIPALITIES: Authorizes the city of Monroe to expropriate property by declaration" description: "MUNICIPALITIES: Authorizes the city of Monroe to expropriate property by declaration" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 650" citation: "Louisiana HB 650 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Adrian Fisher"] version_count: 8 action_count: 23 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2024-03-01" last_action: "2024-06-19" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b01b416-902a-4018-ad7a-6af933e18265" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246456" source_hash: "25131525f341aca4d2b005aea8d5f9f24295fb4d72d29238ede30bcc3ba13667" 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 650 (2024) — MUNICIPALITIES: Authorizes the city of Monroe to expropriate property by declaration ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB650 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352267) 2. **HB650 Act 717** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382740) 3. **HB650 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367049) 4. **HB650 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369939) 5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2202, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367344) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3559, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374473) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3630, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374860) 8. **HB650 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380087) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#739) — **95–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#1154) — **33–0** (pass) · upper - CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1562) — **95–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Adrian Fisher — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024. - **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 717. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, 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. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `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 95, 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 (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules. - **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing` - **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/8b01b416-902a-4018-ad7a-6af933e18265`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).