---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to employees of communications districts"
description: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to employees of communications districts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 392"
citation: "Louisiana HB 392 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/690ea65d-8f0a-4b19-886d-c9659c7b4233"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242020"
source_hash: "6319f1a272b161a8d5b7aa8769ac5db94556bcb7b0bdc3ae1c413f09725171a2"
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 392 (2022) — DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to employees of communications districts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB392 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254244)
2. **HB392 Act 213** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286785)
3. **HB392 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268032)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1416, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267064)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2263, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267935)
6. **HB392 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1282280)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#762) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 213. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2022.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-07** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/690ea65d-8f0a-4b19-886d-c9659c7b4233`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).