---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibited provisions in certain public contracts"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibited provisions in certain public contracts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 573"
citation: "Louisiana HB 573 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/720f354d-cad9-4fa1-a5cb-e42c97df51ef"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244569"
source_hash: "b122cc1e8bcce9b90f1677962fad792e2260b256b52f6950770dba8d23e70006"
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 573 (2023) — PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to prohibited provisions in certain public contracts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB573 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309866)
2. **HB573 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332573)
3. **HB573 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311534)
4. **HB573 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313056)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1330, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312896)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2530, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327674)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2647, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328378)
8. **HB573 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331065)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#40) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1042) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#703) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 379. `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.
- **2023-06-04** 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 39 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`
- **2023-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
- **2023-04-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-13** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/720f354d-cad9-4fa1-a5cb-e42c97df51ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).