---
type: "Bill"
title: "LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace"
description: "LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 118"
citation: "Louisiana HB 118 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candace N. Newell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-21"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/382988aa-9beb-4f18-b64c-394aa1714d90"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245682"
source_hash: "d9f77281e4d03bc5abea020ca601fa1f9c957bde81436781a9f2da4c8724687c"
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 118 (2024) — LABOR/ARBITRATION: Provides relative to certain pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the workplace

## Version chain

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

1. **HB118 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344847)
2. **HB118 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382277)
3. **HB118 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370973)
4. **HB118 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380206)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1306) — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#897) — **61–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Candace N. Newell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 541. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 61, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/23/2024.
- **2024-02-21** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/382988aa-9beb-4f18-b64c-394aa1714d90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).