---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to regulation of conveyance devices"
description: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to regulation of conveyance devices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 618"
citation: "Louisiana HB 618 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebc9f7ca-585a-4023-bf7c-823a877630e0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248698"
source_hash: "df3a42a4a565fd72fab7c56d2c498b3c4da6d7593577e10269664da1c738bfc3"
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 618 (2025) — FIRE PROTECT/FIRE MARSHAL: Provides relative to regulation of conveyance devices

## Version chain

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

1. **HB618 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404597)
2. **HB618 Act 297** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425611)
3. **HB618 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409105)
4. **HB618 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412637)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1583, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408542)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1764, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408799)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1826, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409054)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2337, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411782)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1911, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415848)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2080, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416980)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2468, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419413)
12. **HB618 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421651)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#821) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#544) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#274) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 297. `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`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2025.
- **2025-05-06** Notice given.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (12-0). `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/ebc9f7ca-585a-4023-bf7c-823a877630e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).