---
type: "Bill"
title: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides for revisions to the Code of Governmental Ethics"
description: "ETHICS/CODE: Provides for revisions to the Code of Governmental Ethics"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 674"
citation: "Louisiana HB 674 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-24"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8425f9eb-a2d7-42ff-8cc1-e0af407b91b0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248955"
source_hash: "0820f15136f38dec59076b83e0b1b3a33c07038c9245d432428da6436db86ba4"
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 674 (2025) — ETHICS/CODE: Provides for revisions to the Code of Governmental Ethics

## Version chain

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

1. **HB674 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408144)
2. **HB674 Act 301** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425615)
3. **HB674 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408192)
4. **HB674 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411401)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1982, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409822)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #2209, Beaullieu, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411149)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2257, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418225)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2347, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418782)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2640, Kleinpeter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420544)
10. **HB674 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422231)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#655) — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#191) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#891) — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 301. `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 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 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`
- **2025-05-29** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. 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** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 397 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (14-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8425f9eb-a2d7-42ff-8cc1-e0af407b91b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).