---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish"
description: "DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 624"
citation: "Louisiana HB 624 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-19"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6b200f4-9627-4c16-bf9c-bb2571ea6bea"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244818"
source_hash: "6bd6be8bf0b16e6a3a7daea020f9bf185126cfa2b278b64605bc548798c27851"
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 624 (2023) — DISTRICTS/ECONOMIC DEVEL: Creates the Evangeline Economic Development Authority in Evangeline Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB624 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313422)
2. **HB624 Act 282** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332444)
3. **HB624 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321244)
4. **HB624 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324725)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2833, Fontenot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321684)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3101, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323049)
7. **HB624 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329403)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#704) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#577) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 282. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6b200f4-9627-4c16-bf9c-bb2571ea6bea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).