---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Provides relative to the re-creation of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Provides relative to the re-creation of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 197"
citation: "Louisiana HB 197 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kim Carver"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1e5fded-b21b-4d4a-bdb0-26ab600a5a09"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245803"
source_hash: "e7b825bd3a514be57c5f32edda89019356de336defb634bea2f1b8d558dc22b4"
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 197 (2024) — SUNSET LAW: Provides relative to the re-creation of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism

## Version chain

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

1. **HB197 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346921)
2. **HB197 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380493)
3. **HB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362766)
4. **HB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375707)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#434) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#861) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kim Carver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 06/30/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 369. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1e5fded-b21b-4d4a-bdb0-26ab600a5a09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).