---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of the Treasury and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of the Treasury and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 318"
citation: "Louisiana HB 318 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/461e5b7e-6e36-42e8-936d-239b40ae7e67"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241944"
source_hash: "03f7f99291dd781a5401c353e3b8a5b5c865a46ed685cee9b429c69005078e7b"
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 318 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of the Treasury and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB318 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253770)
2. **HB318 Act 148** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286085)
3. **HB318 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268459)
4. **HB318 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271769)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1748, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268742)
6. **HB318 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279795)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#621) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#373) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 06/30/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 148. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-09** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2022.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-11** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/461e5b7e-6e36-42e8-936d-239b40ae7e67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).