---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides relative to Department of Transportation and Development spending"
description: "TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides relative to Department of Transportation and Development spending"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 381"
citation: "Louisiana HB 381 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob Braud"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31ed41d9-dbf8-4f31-8ac9-71fd2dabbeef"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246066"
source_hash: "b758333f3c3614f8af89e6caabf975995dba8cc485cc2fe5e6a8cc0079bcbeaa"
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 381 (2024) — TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Provides relative to Department of Transportation and Development spending

## Version chain

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

1. **HB381 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350128)
2. **HB381 Act 73** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375965)
3. **HB381 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355007)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2081, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366370)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2121, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366567)
6. **HB381 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372341)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#470) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#887) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacob Braud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-15** Effective date: 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 73. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/07/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/2024.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-18** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31ed41d9-dbf8-4f31-8ac9-71fd2dabbeef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).