---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Establishes the High Impact Job Program within Louisiana Economic Development and provides for administration of the program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Establishes the High Impact Job Program within Louisiana Economic Development and provides for administration of the program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 507"
citation: "Louisiana HB 507 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/117a5be2-4c2c-4e39-9786-fa676b9c8002"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248539"
source_hash: "3ec776874875ccca4311d9f056e68ed3a92e1f0099cae0b506138b7bc15badd5"
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 507 (2025) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Establishes the High Impact Job Program within Louisiana Economic Development and provides for administration of the program (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB507 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404070)
2. **HB507 Act 372** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1428670)
3. **HB507 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409140)
4. **HB507 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416080)
5. **HB507 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414344)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1700, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408554)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1753, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408777)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1825, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409091)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2568, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413247)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2781, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414299)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #3051, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415631)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2891, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421813)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2893, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421824)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3067, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422563)
15. **HB507 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1428658)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#454) — **88–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#718) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1005) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 07/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 372. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** 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`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 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.
- **2025-05-29** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 11. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (15-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/117a5be2-4c2c-4e39-9786-fa676b9c8002`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).