---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2025-2026"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2025-2026"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 647"
citation: "Louisiana HB 647 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-22"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a556d64-f2bf-4d50-bb9b-402f8a78a811"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248872"
source_hash: "8eff643c4e76c10b95c34ae63f5d2270adba0eb0bbe9a1238fb71c3cbdd3d3f9"
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 647 (2025) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2025-2026

## Version chain

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

1. **HB647 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406936)
2. **HB647 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426014)
3. **HB647 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413783)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2576, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413283)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2628, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413746)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2509, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419830)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2533, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419906)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3092, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422681)
9. **HB647 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425220)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#823) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1234) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#429) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 07/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 390. `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** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **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. 4 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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Made Special Order of the day No. 9 for 05/15/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (23-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a556d64-f2bf-4d50-bb9b-402f8a78a811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).