---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS: Provides for a Louisiana Music Trail and related programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
description: "HIGHWAYS: Provides for a Louisiana Music Trail and related programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 649"
citation: "Louisiana HB 649 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29ea4c86-6ad4-47a7-851e-ef7cd9121379"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244987"
source_hash: "7c00ef19370256331334e281f67fc033d3818c0d007f226e02a7f5ddd9c2aeac"
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 649 (2023) — HIGHWAYS: Provides for a Louisiana Music Trail and related programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB649 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318871)
2. **HB649 Act 283** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332445)
3. **HB649 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319033)
4. **HB649 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322940)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2379, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319214)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3064, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322767)
7. **HB649 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329696)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#784) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#462) — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 283. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2023.
- **2023-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 482 reported by the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs (12-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29ea4c86-6ad4-47a7-851e-ef7cd9121379`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).