---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides relative to the assessment of penalties for failure to timely file required reports"
description: "CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides relative to the assessment of penalties for failure to timely file required reports"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 740"
citation: "Louisiana HB 740 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Denise Marcelle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-18"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e887dd7f-f595-48ad-b5bb-f77d38f08b0d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246741"
source_hash: "08e15fe6082e230ba5181b0eaa9bd1acae2d5168817daa8817b643d00ddde667"
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 740 (2024) — CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Provides relative to the assessment of penalties for failure to timely file required reports

## Version chain

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

1. **HB740 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354956)
2. **HB740 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381926)
3. **HB740 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361828)
4. **HB740 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378422)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1158) — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#364) — **80–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Denise Marcelle — 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. 447. `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`
- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 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`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e887dd7f-f595-48ad-b5bb-f77d38f08b0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).