---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #1)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #1)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s1"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1 (2020s1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 30
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-06-01"
last_action: "2020-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41f5e187-a141-4b62-ae57-19e0915fe68c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239133"
source_hash: "024a306191dd0721821af1db132f96428b26a37268ff665b03d7a0bd6fa28c6f"
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 1 (2020s1) — APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (Item #1)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179093)
2. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #230, Edmonds, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181221)
3. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #232, Freeman, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181224)
4. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #235, Freeman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181252)
5. **Conference Committee Report, #544, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184539)
6. **HB1 Act 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1186105)
7. **HB1 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180359)
8. **HB1 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181300)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #103, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179619)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #104, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179950)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #121, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179982)
12. **House Committee Amendment, #122, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179984)
13. **House Committee Amendment, #124, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179986)
14. **House Committee Amendment, #126, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179997)
15. **House Committee Amendment, #130, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180016)
16. **House Committee Amendment, #132, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180338)
17. **House Committee Amendment, #88, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179412)
18. **House Floor Amendment, #149, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180305)
19. **House Floor Amendment, #219, Freeman, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181033)
20. **House Floor Amendment, #234, Freeman, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181250)
21. **Senate Committee Amendment, #388, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184003)
22. **Senate Floor Amendment, #496, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184289)
23. **Senate Floor Amendment, #515, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184408)
24. **Senate Floor Amendment, #525, Peterson, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184409)
25. **Senate Floor Amendment, #530, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184432)
26. **Senate Floor Amendment, #536, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184447)
27. **Senate Floor Amendment, #537, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184460)
28. **Senate Floor Amendment, #538, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184448)
29. **Senate Floor Amendment, #540, White, B, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1184463)
30. **HB1 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1185203)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 525 BY PETERSON, HB 1 BY ZERINGUE (#138) — **6–31** (fail) · upper
- 01-100 EXECUTIVE OFFICE (#139) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 230 BY EDMONDS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#12) — **19–81** (fail) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#142) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#13) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#186) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#140) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#184) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-08** Effective date: 07/01/2020.
- **2020-07-08** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 1. `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-30** Signed by the President of the Senate on 7/1/2020.
- **2020-06-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-30** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-30** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-06-30** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2020-06-30** Rules suspended.
- **2020-06-30** Conference Committee report received.
- **2020-06-29** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2020-06-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: White, Cloud, and Tarver.
- **2020-06-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2020-06-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2020-06-29** House conferees appointed: Zeringue, Schexnayder, and Dustin Miller.
- **2020-06-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2020-06-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/29/20.
- **2020-06-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-06-26** 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`
- **2020-06-26** Rules suspended.
- **2020-06-25** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 3 for 06/26.
- **2020-06-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-06-24** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-06-17** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-06-17** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-06-11** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-06-05** Made Special Order of the day No. 1 for 06/10/20.
- **2020-06-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2020-06-05** Reported with amendments (21-0).
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41f5e187-a141-4b62-ae57-19e0915fe68c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).