---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS/ANCILLARY: Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS/ANCILLARY: Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 388"
citation: "Louisiana HB 388 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aec3ca7d-f5d7-4f1f-97f3-a013e672a188"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244311"
source_hash: "e2fd3178b92335669a46b48603192457c4cc80cd7695f12d38a62a5ac9cbb271"
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 388 (2023) — APPROPRIATIONS/ANCILLARY: Provides for the ancillary expenses of state government

## Version chain

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

1. **HB388 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308475)
2. **HB388 Act 408** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332747)
3. **HB388 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317514)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2317, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326588)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2571, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327892)
6. **HB388 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331295)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#813) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1121) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#231) — **105–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 07/01/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 408. `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`
- **2023-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2023-06-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Notice given.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Made Special Order of the day No. 4 for 05/04/2023.
- **2023-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Reported favorably (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aec3ca7d-f5d7-4f1f-97f3-a013e672a188`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).