---
type: "Bill"
title: "PARISH/GOVERN AUTHORITY: Provides relative to a travel allowance for members of the governing authority of East Baton Rouge Parish"
description: "PARISH/GOVERN AUTHORITY: Provides relative to a travel allowance for members of the governing authority of East Baton Rouge Parish"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 323"
citation: "Louisiana HB 323 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07ee47f4-4aa8-4c57-a23e-9d387d1eb061"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245961"
source_hash: "512a842a07664b4825eb5232e7bc18072753997b76741e16a2594d3bf0f11713"
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 323 (2024) — PARISH/GOVERN AUTHORITY: Provides relative to a travel allowance for members of the governing authority of East Baton Rouge Parish

## Version chain

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

1. **HB323 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349189)
2. **HB323 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381951)
3. **HB323 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367034)
4. **HB323 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369224)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2208, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367350)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3498, Cathey, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374122)
7. **HB323 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377482)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1060) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#705) — **91–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 471 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-11** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07ee47f4-4aa8-4c57-a23e-9d387d1eb061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).