---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Exempts purchases made by child advocacy centers from state and local sales and use taxes (EN -$275,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Exempts purchases made by child advocacy centers from state and local sales and use taxes (EN -$275,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 313"
citation: "Louisiana HB 313 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Lyons"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88152435-9236-49a2-b472-5951195feea2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248278"
source_hash: "5c7941d5d2deeb68eaa8c706eaf941ec04f9a16b0e748fd32f74ce995bd92d24"
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 313 (2025) — TAX/SALES-USE-EXEMPT: Exempts purchases made by child advocacy centers from state and local sales and use taxes (EN -$275,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB313 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402283)
2. **HB313 Act 494** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427684)
3. **HB313 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420137)
4. **HB313 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423442)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#898) — **81–13** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#781) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodney Lyons — 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. 494 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`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-04** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `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/88152435-9236-49a2-b472-5951195feea2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).