---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOMELAND SECURITY: Provides relative to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "HOMELAND SECURITY: Provides relative to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 274"
citation: "Louisiana HB 274 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba417373-17cc-499a-9ac0-2b2399709468"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248209"
source_hash: "1a47c7465426b8bb54c7567283c637c160a7acf8b8ea15deb97dffb596446913"
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 274 (2025) — HOMELAND SECURITY: Provides relative to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB274 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401806)
2. **HB274 Act 262** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425574)
3. **HB274 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413205)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2125, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410821)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2535, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413078)
6. **HB274 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422838)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#696) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#386) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 262. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba417373-17cc-499a-9ac0-2b2399709468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).