---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials"
description: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 688"
citation: "Louisiana HB 688 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a5721af-5680-43aa-912a-56a79d54e5d6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246514"
source_hash: "d0c36d8e047ac96aa0b017a0c6afd71ba898c2ebe2c092dfc319abc985c65292"
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 688 (2024) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to training requirements for local government officials

## Version chain

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

1. **HB688 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352507)
2. **HB688 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381924)
3. **HB688 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371069)
4. **HB688 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372567)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3790, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369572)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3999, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370609)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #4051, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371044)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #4105, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371513)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #4143, Larvadain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371592)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2963, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371363)
11. **HB688 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378182)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#900) — **64–32** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1118) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 445. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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`
- **2024-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments (15-0). `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/4a5721af-5680-43aa-912a-56a79d54e5d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).