---
type: "Bill"
title: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to support and service animals"
description: "ANIMALS: Provides relative to support and service animals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 407"
citation: "Louisiana HB 407 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d958d0a-cb68-4dd0-99b3-e5039a70737c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246097"
source_hash: "bd62a0b974c2493d38bfc3c702b86651a30869ca6937e13b689d24d4ae62b52c"
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 407 (2024) — ANIMALS: Provides relative to support and service animals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB407 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350669)
2. **HB407 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382297)
3. **HB407 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356725)
4. **HB407 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361720)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1529, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356541)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1571, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356685)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1872, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358459)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1111, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357172)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3280, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372872)
10. **HB407 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379630)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#866) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1493) — **85–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#198) — **95–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 558. `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`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 3. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 5. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Notice given.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/9d958d0a-cb68-4dd0-99b3-e5039a70737c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).