---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOLIDAYS: Provides relative to legal holidays in recognition of the Washington Parish Free Fair"
description: "HOLIDAYS: Provides relative to legal holidays in recognition of the Washington Parish Free Fair"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 26"
citation: "Louisiana HB 26 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Wyble"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c89549bb-b3d2-4a19-8b3d-fe522aba6b4b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247910"
source_hash: "5d9e9ca1b260886f8b2b45cfcdff5a26822fc8d63b92079a0c41a814ab0d7d88"
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 26 (2025) — HOLIDAYS: Provides relative to legal holidays in recognition of the Washington Parish Free Fair

## Version chain

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

1. **HB26 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1395010)
2. **HB26 Act 305** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425622)
3. **HB26 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410255)
4. **HB26 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419691)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#455) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Wyble — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-16** Becomes Act No. 305 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 00 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
- **2025-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c89549bb-b3d2-4a19-8b3d-fe522aba6b4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).