---
type: "Bill"
title: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to horse racing (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to horse racing (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "Louisiana HB 426 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09c32f56-de8a-461f-9380-406556883a57"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242104"
source_hash: "9767fe4b85a3ea20a6f85164a8429266a1ad7844703ca3a0a02f5ea0fe64f652"
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 426 (2022) — RACING/HORSE: Provides relative to horse racing (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB426 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254723)
2. **HB426 Act 216** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286788)
3. **HB426 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263235)
4. **HB426 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283057)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#212) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#817) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Scott McKnight — 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. 216. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-24** 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`
- **2022-05-19** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-17** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2022.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-29** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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 Commerce. `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/09c32f56-de8a-461f-9380-406556883a57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).