---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association and New Orleans City Park Police"
description: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association and New Orleans City Park Police"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 398"
citation: "Louisiana HB 398 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31832628-94dc-4648-9ca5-e15eb47487e5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246084"
source_hash: "54760e79138a732f80f6234048cbee5740da80b6cf54fd6c0daff5819d8ead68"
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 398 (2024) — LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides relative to the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association and New Orleans City Park Police

## Version chain

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

1. **HB398 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350286)
2. **HB398 Act 613** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382342)
3. **HB398 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364701)
4. **HB398 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366861)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2945, Hilferty, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365364)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3843, Harris, Jimmy, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376128)
7. **HB398 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381259)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1396) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1714) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 613. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended.
- **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.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/31832628-94dc-4648-9ca5-e15eb47487e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).