---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to electric vehicle charging technology and equipment networks"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to electric vehicle charging technology and equipment networks"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 835"
citation: "Louisiana HB 835 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60e4bee9-6d4f-4308-8499-ad9133feaeef"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246984"
source_hash: "c13c2fc079d6cfd5f56793c6abb1683f9c5e4af932dccef98ca27667349639a9"
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 835 (2024) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to electric vehicle charging technology and equipment networks

## Version chain

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

1. **HB835 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360227)
2. **HB835 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381931)
3. **HB835 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367786)
4. **HB835 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378101)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1103) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#758) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — 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. 452. `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 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** 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/60e4bee9-6d4f-4308-8499-ad9133feaeef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).