--- type: "Bill" title: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2023-2024" description: "LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2023-2024" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2023" identifier: "HB 636" citation: "Louisiana HB 636 (2023)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Clay Schexnayder"] version_count: 9 action_count: 25 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2023-04-19" last_action: "2023-06-15" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aa6630a-da32-40a0-97ff-714899c870e5" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244834" source_hash: "05a1a19eb87d3ea930b4ec139360601ce5dec3dca4a9ea6f8f7154b43430a846" 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 636 (2023) — LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB636 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313614) 2. **HB636 Act 415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332754) 3. **HB636 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317636) 4. **HB636 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319252) 5. **House Floor Amendment, #2314, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318682) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2536, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327780) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2570, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327891) 8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2846, Barrow, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329813) 9. **HB636 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331309) ## Votes - CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1124) — **103–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#831) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **104–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Clay Schexnayder — primary (person) - Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person) - Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person) - Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person) - Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person) - Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person) - Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person) - Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person) - Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-06-15** Effective date: 07/01/2023. - **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 415. `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` - **2023-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in. - **2023-06-07** Called from the calendar. - **2023-06-07** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order. - **2023-06-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2023. - **2023-06-06** Notice given. - **2023-06-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar. - **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023. - **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2023-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2023-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2023-05-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2023-05-02** Made Special Order of the day No. 8 for 05/04/2023. - **2023-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2023-05-01** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-04-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee` - **2023-04-19** 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/8aa6630a-da32-40a0-97ff-714899c870e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).