---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2025-2026"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2025-2026"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a886bf18-0d02-45f0-a61f-286da20eff5d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248465"
source_hash: "72f100749d79520e1dfc615142f46158eac472a3c547fc784f10fd55ae2d96b2"
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 1 (2025) — APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2025-2026

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403677)
2. **HB1 Act 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426046)
3. **HB1 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413536)
4. **HB1 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415393)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2584, APP, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413330)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2653, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413700)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2849, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414627)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2516, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419845)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3030, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422469)
10. **HB1 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424221)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#421) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1230) — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#820) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-10** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Notice given.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 1 for 6/9/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-01** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Made Special Order of the day No. 1 for 05/15/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (23-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a886bf18-0d02-45f0-a61f-286da20eff5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).