--- type: "Bill" title: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States" description: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 56" citation: "Louisiana HB 56 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"] version_count: 6 action_count: 22 vote_count: 4 first_action: "2025-03-12" last_action: "2025-06-10" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247943" source_hash: "62ec798a5e2460698668ac44c656540567876492b8d7457111789334d7aa198a" 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 56 (2025) — CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB56 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396383) 2. **HB56 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425476) 3. **HB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411542) 4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2303, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418540) 5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2304, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418541) 6. **HB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422146) ## Votes - CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#868) — **92–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#556) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - CO-AUTHORS (#557) — **9–0** (fail) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#321) — **86–6** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Dodie Horton — primary (person) - Adam Bass — cosponsor (person) - Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Billings — cosponsor (person) - Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person) - Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person) - Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person) - Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person) - John Wyble — cosponsor (person) - Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person) - Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person) - Larry Selders — cosponsor (person) - Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person) - Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person) - Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person) - Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person) - Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2025. - **2025-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in. - **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025. - **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025. - **2025-05-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-05-06** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025. - **2025-03-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-12** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).