---
type: "Bill"
title: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to regional economic development organizations"
description: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to regional economic development organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 861"
citation: "Louisiana HB 861 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f254d303-d711-48e0-bb65-494877a506c6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247054"
source_hash: "a82eb192536c888932338fc10f06bfa1bc6d354922892650dca0cba66df22863"
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 861 (2024) — ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to regional economic development organizations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB861 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360946)
2. **HB861 Act 742** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382770)
3. **HB861 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365692)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2887, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365034)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3026, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365677)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2834, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370781)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2883, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370972)
8. **HB861 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379676)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#934) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#621) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1518) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 742. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `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 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (15-0). `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/f254d303-d711-48e0-bb65-494877a506c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).