---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides relative to reporting on federal and state funding of mental health services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides relative to reporting on federal and state funding of mental health services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 846"
citation: "Louisiana HB 846 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alonzo Knox"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3878c711-1c2a-4222-83f6-0487a17d9837"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246996"
source_hash: "27455ca356c63bb350d1d2343578265272198b15383712f7b5d496ffd40f59c2"
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 846 (2024) — FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides relative to reporting on federal and state funding of mental health services (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB846 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360469)
2. **HB846 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381934)
3. **HB846 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365392)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2882, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364998)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2969, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365375)
6. **HB846 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375888)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#939) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#633) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alonzo Knox — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 455. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-07** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-06** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Reported with amendments (17-0). `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/3878c711-1c2a-4222-83f6-0487a17d9837`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).