---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
description: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 843"
citation: "Louisiana HB 843 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14aafa1c-b914-45c7-be1e-eb835e80515f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246992"
source_hash: "726ac1ae9b64a63d38e91b4ba12163dcc3c2cb50378cf423b60263418d042041"
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 843 (2024) — LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

## Version chain

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

1. **HB843 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360318)
2. **HB843 Act 733** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382760)
3. **HB843 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368154)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3836, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376113)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4160, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378029)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4430, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380937)
7. **HB843 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381471)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1437) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1735) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#730) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 733. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2024.
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Made Special Order of the day No. 10 for 04/25/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably (22-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `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/14aafa1c-b914-45c7-be1e-eb835e80515f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).