---
type: "Bill"
title: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Orleans Parish Communications District"
description: "DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Orleans Parish Communications District"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 575"
citation: "Louisiana HB 575 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/078bfc0d-a060-4dac-92ee-aedd5b3e08bd"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246333"
source_hash: "fa4893ff81bad2cd48b9e25b175ace79be0b377e6a91c7f1a2cd81f38a10a707"
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 575 (2024) — DISTRICTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Provides relative to the membership of the Orleans Parish Communications District

## Version chain

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

1. **HB575 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351721)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5086, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379947)
3. **HB575 Act 710** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382732)
4. **HB575 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367051)
5. **HB575 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370040)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3868, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369781)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2204, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367346)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3992, Bouie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377051)
9. **HB575 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381283)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#1426) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1702) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#736) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1116) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1382) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 710. `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** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-31** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Conference committee report received.
- **2024-05-30** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: Bouie, Duplessis, and Harris.
- **2024-05-28** House conferees appointed: Hughes, Gadberry, and Green.
- **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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`
- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/078bfc0d-a060-4dac-92ee-aedd5b3e08bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).