---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the \"Austin Bush Memorial Bridge\""
description: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the \"Austin Bush Memorial Bridge\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 648"
citation: "Louisiana HB 648 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73ec6342-48b4-4312-a9ce-9c23d3462d00"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246454"
source_hash: "cba297a1920242ca0a2e6a7e5f28bd094c3a96ba75a40cf9d42d4ab03cebd506"
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 648 (2024) — HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates the bridge on Louisiana Highway 648 over Bayou Lafourche as the "Austin Bush Memorial Bridge"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB648 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352275)
2. **HB648 Act 82** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375975)
3. **HB648 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353789)
4. **HB648 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355242)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #712, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354078)
6. **HB648 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372546)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#19) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#550) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 82. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-07** 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`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/18/2024.
- **2024-03-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-12** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/73ec6342-48b4-4312-a9ce-9c23d3462d00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).