---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-22"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/861ad135-72e5-4c4d-aac7-b340aa73715b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248879"
source_hash: "909ce4181cf52676bdbbc73da16697b5ed93c99965b6425dea37cf3130a9cc13"
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 2 (2025) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407011)
2. **HB2 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426048)
3. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413382)
4. **HB2 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414114)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2587, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413335)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2664, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413642)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2717, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413952)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2782, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414322)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2511, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419832)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2670, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420713)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3040, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422479)
12. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424980)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#422) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1236) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#829) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 2. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-10** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Notice given.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 9 for 6/9/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-06-01** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2025-06-01** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Made Special Order of the day No. 2 for 05/15/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** 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/861ad135-72e5-4c4d-aac7-b340aa73715b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).