---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (Items #18, 21, and 23)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (Items #18, 21, and 23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024s3"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Louisiana HB 4 (2024s3)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-11-01"
last_action: "2024-12-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23610d1f-f871-46b8-8f7d-4a4e223a09d9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247847"
source_hash: "f1345ef3e0591c3ac9b0b39119ade4a451c4e6ee2bee9ca3f5e726342137efc4"
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 4 (2024s3) — APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (Items #18, 21, and 23)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB4 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1390001)
2. **HB4 Act 7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1391652)
3. **HB4 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1390361)
4. **HB4 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1391363)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#18) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#35) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-04** Effective date: 12/04/2024.
- **2024-12-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-11-25** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-11-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-11-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-11-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-11-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-11-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-11-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-11-13** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-11-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-11-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 11/12/2024.
- **2024-11-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-11-08** Reported favorably (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-11-06** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23610d1f-f871-46b8-8f7d-4a4e223a09d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).