---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to payments under contract by public entites. (gov sig)"
description: "CONTRACTS: Provides relative to payments under contract by public entites. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Louisiana SB 169 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glen Womack"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bcbd2fa-387e-4854-b293-33d81e3e529c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246204"
source_hash: "e9a6e01f9c990ca730413b91faa92ee0c9e6bb719300035d108e8a06524ae47c"
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 SB 169 (2024) — CONTRACTS: Provides relative to payments under contract by public entites. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB169 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350977)
2. **SB169 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379400)
3. **SB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359142)
4. **SB169 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363614)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1527, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361789)
6. **SB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373185)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#942) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#221) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Glen Womack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date 5/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 165. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-15** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-14** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-13** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-22** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bcbd2fa-387e-4854-b293-33d81e3e529c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).