---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides for the establishment of gold and silver as legal tender. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides for the establishment of gold and silver as legal tender. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Louisiana SB 232 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8e0c92b-7e86-485c-bc09-a1282eff6b9b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246392"
source_hash: "329987ca96c19b3c382a6162a9b22f892f7fe1fa34ea207ad8ebc3254b317048"
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 232 (2024) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides for the establishment of gold and silver as legal tender. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB232 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352031)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3821, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369613)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3858, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369873)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #4163, Landry, Jacob, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371654)
5. **SB232 Act 396** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380842)
6. **SB232 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358839)
7. **SB232 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376511)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#226) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1086) — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#972) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 396. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments (12-3). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, 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 Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8e0c92b-7e86-485c-bc09-a1282eff6b9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).