---
type: "Bill"
title: "CULTURE/FRENCH: Provides relative to the membership of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana"
description: "CULTURE/FRENCH: Provides relative to the membership of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 881"
citation: "Louisiana HB 881 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af4bff66-b55a-44a6-a05c-1800cf94b68b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247076"
source_hash: "a5ae2a0c215125accb198e4357769c37a644e7d3dbf93c618e53e5ddcabf14bb"
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 881 (2024) — CULTURE/FRENCH: Provides relative to the membership of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana

## Version chain

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

1. **HB881 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361080)
2. **HB881 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382316)
3. **HB881 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367181)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2326, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362061)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3280, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366797)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3322, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367117)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3711, Stine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375264)
8. **HB881 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379802)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#749) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#820) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1521) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 574. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, 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`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** 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 Education. `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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `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/af4bff66-b55a-44a6-a05c-1800cf94b68b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).