---
type: "Bill"
title: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband"
description: "UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 700"
citation: "Louisiana HB 700 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Deshotel"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e07fa7d3-9e58-4107-b169-38fc0e258968"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246540"
source_hash: "b53ebbf9f792854b6f9c88b15ce8bb831ea4722faa13a8fe81de4c1b5826afe9"
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 700 (2024) — UTILITIES: Provides relative to broadband

## Version chain

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

1. **HB700 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352564)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5266, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379969)
3. **HB700 Act 632** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382361)
4. **HB700 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363437)
5. **HB700 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365696)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2272, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361796)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2425, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362548)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2562, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363421)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2950, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365277)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2987, Deshotel, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365358)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2425, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368587)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3589, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374671)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3643, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374955)
14. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3829, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376083)
15. **HB700 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381672)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1157) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1753) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1466) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#493) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1564) — **71–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (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. 632. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee report received.
- **2024-05-30** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: Mizell, Connick, and Morris.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-05-29** House conferees appointed: Deshotel, Mike Johnson, and Beaullieu.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 21, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-15** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/e07fa7d3-9e58-4107-b169-38fc0e258968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).