---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides a limited exception for the schedule of a statewide elected official"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides a limited exception for the schedule of a statewide elected official"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 767"
citation: "Louisiana HB 767 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-25"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6da132a0-8c27-49fa-9880-3c996c323b2a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246838"
source_hash: "3eb80e2664ef5101bde954e085681a742a5b14cfea3e90ed299ea66a7035ce34"
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 767 (2024) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides a limited exception for the schedule of a statewide elected official

## Version chain

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

1. **HB767 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357360)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5331, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380708)
3. **HB767 Act 638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382367)
4. **HB767 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364377)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3970, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377065)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4071, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377522)
7. **HB767 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381750)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1314) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1770) — **79–19** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1667) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1489) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — 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. 638. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 79, nays 19. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee report received.
- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-31** Senate conference committee members appointed: Talbot, Seabaugh, and Fields.
- **2024-05-30** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-30** House conferees appointed: Emerson, Beaullieu, and Mike Johnson.
- **2024-05-30** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-10** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6da132a0-8c27-49fa-9880-3c996c323b2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).