---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to exemption from requirements regarding selection of professional services contracts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to exemption from requirements regarding selection of professional services contracts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 410"
citation: "Louisiana HB 410 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Brass"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21b6f77a-0464-4ba8-bd78-9e507a16aff0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246100"
source_hash: "7777667bef11872dd328fb041e3c40ebd914aae66eaf4e0f131d07c5581bb96f"
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 410 (2024) — PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides relative to exemption from requirements regarding selection of professional services contracts (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB410 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350673)
2. **HB410 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381905)
3. **HB410 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355661)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1328, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355254)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1390, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355618)
6. **HB410 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376856)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#69) — **88–9** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#986) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ken Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 06/03/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 427. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2024.
- **2024-03-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-19** Reported with amendments (23-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `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/21b6f77a-0464-4ba8-bd78-9e507a16aff0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).