---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Melrose East Crime Prevention District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Melrose East Crime Prevention District in East Baton Rouge Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 690"
citation: "Louisiana HB 690 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fe26595-6f20-4d4d-963c-4d0a286f83f8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246516"
source_hash: "bb80265532994fb9aed0931e759e47684817d1568c0e23c6229a34809aa8807e"
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 690 (2024) — DISTRICTS/NEIGHBORHOOD: Provides relative to the Melrose East Crime Prevention District in East Baton Rouge Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB690 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352509)
2. **HB690 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381925)
3. **HB690 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367053)
4. **HB690 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378430)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1156) — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **88–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 06/03/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 446. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 6. 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 (11-0). `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/3fe26595-6f20-4d4d-963c-4d0a286f83f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).