---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for a portal to provide comprehensive financial and other information to the public (EN -$3,500,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for a portal to provide comprehensive financial and other information to the public (EN -$3,500,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 597"
citation: "Louisiana HB 597 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Ivey"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b36cc697-bb5d-4a38-80e1-5ae652523e1b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244607"
source_hash: "d13fd8b581734ed1b1f0bc5cef34fdd09f281437e3c1c014094c0e3fefff1736"
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 597 (2023) — LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Provides for a portal to provide comprehensive financial and other information to the public (EN -$3,500,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB597 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309976)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4234, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331518)
3. **HB597 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333445)
4. **HB597 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321127)
5. **HB597 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325722)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2594, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320632)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2706, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321064)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2821, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321642)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3399, Ivey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324784)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1657, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321540)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2513, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327564)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2563, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327848)
13. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2755, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329112)
14. **HB597 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332073)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#1042) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1248) — **82–9** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#644) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1102) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barry Ivey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 446. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/9/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 82, nays 9. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Ivey, Stefanski, and McKnight.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-06** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hewitt, Foil, and Milligan.
- **2023-06-06** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **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`
- **2023-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-06-01** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2023-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Notice given.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (9-2-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `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 House and Governmental Affairs. `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/b36cc697-bb5d-4a38-80e1-5ae652523e1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).