---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "Louisiana HB 2 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-20"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be5fc924-933b-4abc-bab3-459245b14c79"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246818"
source_hash: "637d32f56a766e6a41ab5ea6b82aa2c8cd6209c3749899c086aa42c6df7bff34"
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 2 (2024) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Provides for the comprehensive Capital Outlay budget

## Version chain

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

1. **HB2 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356276)
2. **HB2 Act 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383071)
3. **HB2 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367561)
4. **HB2 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369429)
5. **HB2 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368080)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3430, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367521)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3471, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367662)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3533, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368039)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #3577, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368277)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #3758, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369387)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3837, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376896)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3912, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376869)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4147, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378013)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4222, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378562)
15. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4411, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381115)
16. **HB2 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381477)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1731) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#721) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1439) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 5. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2024.
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-31** 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`
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-28** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-05-22** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Made Special Order of the day No. 2 for 04/25/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments (22-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-04-22** Rules suspended.
- **2024-04-22** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** 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/be5fc924-933b-4abc-bab3-459245b14c79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).