---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the Victims of Vehicular Homicide Fund (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the Victims of Vehicular Homicide Fund (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Louisiana HB 439 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus Bryant"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd8091cd-1643-4111-8111-50c6911f7914"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244395"
source_hash: "dbf6c6a455eeaeaad8dfc1cb2dd215624107cac28717defcd63dfa07edd3fc62"
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 439 (2023) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates the Victims of Vehicular Homicide Fund (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB439 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309072)
2. **HB439 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333449)
3. **HB439 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321507)
4. **HB439 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326204)
5. **HB439 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324775)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1350, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313012)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2783, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321464)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3286, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324191)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #3340, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324767)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3471, Bryant, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325250)
11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2080, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324789)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2768, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329144)
13. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2767, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329143)
14. **HB439 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330924)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#822) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1083) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **98–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcus Bryant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 451. `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 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-25** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Notice given.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-11** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary.
- **2023-05-09** Discharged from the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd8091cd-1643-4111-8111-50c6911f7914`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).