---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRINTING: Provides relative to compensation and other requirements for official journals of parishes, municipalities and school boards (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "PRINTING: Provides relative to compensation and other requirements for official journals of parishes, municipalities and school boards (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 650"
citation: "Louisiana HB 650 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rick Edmonds"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56c264b2-7511-4ffc-b8a1-d29798e1f267"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244988"
source_hash: "6f7b9c440eb9df7cb1bc2af09c7e349394619b79dc403ef0d5e9fd52b9b41895"
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 650 (2023) — PRINTING: Provides relative to compensation and other requirements for official journals of parishes, municipalities and school boards (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB650 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318873)
2. **HB650 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332150)
3. **HB650 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319032)
4. **HB650 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322784)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1384, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319301)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2154, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325377)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2214, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325817)
8. **HB650 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328575)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#579) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#447) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#804) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rick Edmonds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: See Act.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 178. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 507 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (10-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56c264b2-7511-4ffc-b8a1-d29798e1f267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).