---
type: "Bill"
title: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to work search requirements for unemployment benefits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
description: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to work search requirements for unemployment benefits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 153"
citation: "Louisiana HB 153 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy Hebert"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69627f7a-91d3-49f2-875f-fcbaf2af0fe2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248063"
source_hash: "73f6998c2c9f4a3e8dbeab7697f50ba181cc01bfb60222efd39c3d948bd965c9"
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 153 (2025) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to work search requirements for unemployment benefits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB153 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400229)
2. **HB153 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425057)
3. **HB153 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408147)
4. **HB153 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411368)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2227, Hebert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411234)
6. **HB153 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420855)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#619) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#180) — **73–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Troy Hebert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 12/31/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.
- **2025-04-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably (7-4). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69627f7a-91d3-49f2-875f-fcbaf2af0fe2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).