---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to the collection of workers' compensation premiums (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
description: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to the collection of workers' compensation premiums (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 280"
citation: "Louisiana HB 280 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/360cb58d-eddb-4a2f-8fc1-774d52051d78"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248245"
source_hash: "bfab544eaa52863f4f168325c3754fb6dfa6aa77403d2823e8bd7cdba1dc8ba0"
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 280 (2025) — WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to the collection of workers' compensation premiums (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB280 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402111)
2. **HB280 Act 490** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427679)
3. **HB280 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408160)
4. **HB280 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423006)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#185) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **27–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 07/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 490 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (8-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/360cb58d-eddb-4a2f-8fc1-774d52051d78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).