---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the limited extension of regular sessions for specific purposes (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the limited extension of regular sessions for specific purposes (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "Louisiana HB 49 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Bacala"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff705042-b8af-434f-83e0-7c87b881ef2c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245569"
source_hash: "d13245c363e03ab78c0c2ae4a059dd7e86c8f50ed5b519af8b1a9778cbaffc0b"
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 49 (2024) — LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the limited extension of regular sessions for specific purposes (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB49 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341764)
2. **HB49 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381791)
3. **HB49 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366484)
4. **HB49 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371143)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4061, Bacala, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371011)
6. **HB49 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378397)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1143) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#818) — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tony Bacala — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 407. `became-law`
- **2024-06-03** Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Reported without amendments (11-0-1).
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/2/2024.
- **2024-01-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff705042-b8af-434f-83e0-7c87b881ef2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).