---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC FACILITIES: Provides relative to types of payment accepted at public events at public postsecondary education institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
description: "PUBLIC FACILITIES: Provides relative to types of payment accepted at public events at public postsecondary education institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Louisiana HB 5 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0888f4e-a6ab-47e8-ad99-c0bc7f53774c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245518"
source_hash: "67597210ffee77169c868baf7f39485b53a5ca232ec38c2dec98c98de9734b6a"
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 5 (2024) — PUBLIC FACILITIES: Provides relative to types of payment accepted at public events at public postsecondary education institutions (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB5 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1340177)
2. **HB5 Act 593** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382322)
3. **HB5 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363784)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3509, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367728)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3794, Coussan, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375758)
6. **HB5 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379157)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#637) — **72–22** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1242) — **33–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — 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. 593. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Discharged from the Committee on Commerce.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Commerce.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (11-2). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-19** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/19/2024.
- **2024-01-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0888f4e-a6ab-47e8-ad99-c0bc7f53774c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).