---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides with respect to the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides with respect to the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 329"
citation: "Louisiana HB 329 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brach Myers"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/526e7914-f0c4-4f0d-b4b8-7c29d27f9b1c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245998"
source_hash: "79c4d7c9b31ab8063356c5d63d44ce5318e38376bda7cacb9f7354130938284e"
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 329 (2024) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides with respect to the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund (EN SEE FISC NOTE)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB329 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349394)
2. **HB329 Act 607** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382336)
3. **HB329 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363419)
4. **HB329 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365002)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2273, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362132)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2554, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363317)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2722, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364187)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3360, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373415)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3420, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373729)
10. **HB329 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379439)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#985) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#442) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1479) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brach Myers — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 607. `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`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-04-16** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, 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, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-03-26** Discharged from the Committee on Education.
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `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/526e7914-f0c4-4f0d-b4b8-7c29d27f9b1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).