---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides with respect to certain permits required by parishes and municipalities"
description: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides with respect to certain permits required by parishes and municipalities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 344"
citation: "Louisiana HB 344 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Selders"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ca4fb86-7588-48f0-afd2-786e695f9b23"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244242"
source_hash: "3f22bbdcffb38dc335cfe7da1002e5f399ba75a6f34b022580fef9be7dcf3c45"
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 344 (2023) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides with respect to certain permits required by parishes and municipalities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB344 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307859)
2. **HB344 Act 307** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332460)
3. **HB344 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318517)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2547, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327777)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2618, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328274)
6. **HB344 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330975)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1029) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#696) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#395) — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Selders — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 307. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2023.
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ca4fb86-7588-48f0-afd2-786e695f9b23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).