---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 653"
citation: "Louisiana HB 653 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-05-09"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/072ac367-c9f5-4ce5-bc7b-a29a7f20e23e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245027"
source_hash: "9b56218437182fbc1042c3dedfef232d0915f7ba890e9a7c5cd32c6fa8409e2d"
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 653 (2023) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities (EN SEE FISC NOTE FF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB653 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320006)
2. **HB653 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332577)
3. **HB653 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320024)
4. **HB653 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325764)
5. **HB653 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323406)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3072, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322920)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3125, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323334)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3243, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323991)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #3509, Schexnayder, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325455)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1904, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323580)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2531, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327671)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2556, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327849)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2822, Mizell, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329638)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2988, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331352)
15. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2711, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328818)
16. **HB653 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332051)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1233) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1032) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2822 BY MIZELL, HB 653 BY DESHOTEL (#838) — **9–30** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#647) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- To consider after the 57th calendar day (#1219) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 vote (#996) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — 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. 383. `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** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-08** Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
- **2023-06-08** By a vote of 98 yeas, 1 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
- **2023-06-08** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
- **2023-06-08** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-05** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-05** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International 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 93, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 603 reported by the Committee on Commerce (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/072ac367-c9f5-4ce5-bc7b-a29a7f20e23e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).