---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds (EN -$9,000,000 GF RV See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds (EN -$9,000,000 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 579"
citation: "Louisiana HB 579 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06415cfd-608e-4605-a3ae-4b8f47400e4b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248625"
source_hash: "4d25217af685feeb5e872a1cbfafb29f2fa9acde68c2688b88f10e206314dccc"
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 579 (2025) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds (EN -$9,000,000 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB579 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404388)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4409, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424850)
3. **HB579 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426008)
4. **HB579 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411944)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2080, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410588)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2279, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411855)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2801, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421447)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2850, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421617)
9. **HB579 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425264)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#805) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#351) — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#998) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1256) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1143) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 385. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-13** 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** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-12** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Emerson, McFarland, and Beaullieu.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Edmonds, Pressly, and Womack.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
- **2025-05-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Reported with amendments (14-0). `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/06415cfd-608e-4605-a3ae-4b8f47400e4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).