---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITIES/NO: Provides relative to fines for building code violations in New Orleans"
description: "MUNICIPALITIES/NO: Provides relative to fines for building code violations in New Orleans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 276"
citation: "Louisiana HB 276 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d722fa17-22e6-4a5a-b13a-f9771ca535de"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244156"
source_hash: "c5f841bf2ccc5154923ca59c3797b1a9867d9652cfd3f3e44db27ce45450b10a"
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 276 (2023) — MUNICIPALITIES/NO: Provides relative to fines for building code violations in New Orleans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB276 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306733)
2. **HB276 Act 304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332457)
3. **HB276 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321242)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2613, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328261)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2617, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328273)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2625, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328308)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2809, Bouie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329492)
8. **HB276 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330985)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#549) — **94–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#846) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1070) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 304. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** 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`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d722fa17-22e6-4a5a-b13a-f9771ca535de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).