---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Louisiana HB 1 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b81c146-d415-4fca-a60d-84f7d5965a6b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245937"
source_hash: "5d75f0dfeefc7b81dd1d73d20f0dad590f25bc55e5eb39928ed3c0d099c95bfa"
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 1 (2024) — APPROPRIATIONS: Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

## Version chain

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

1. **HB1 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348772)
2. **Committee of the Whole House Amendment, #3743, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369337)
3. **HB1 Act 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383070)
4. **HB1 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368267)
5. **HB1 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369356)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1129, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353764)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3586, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368340)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3611, McFarland, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368324)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4126, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378038)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4432, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380960)
11. **HB1 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381476)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#720) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1730) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1431) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 4. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2024.
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-31** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Rules suspended.
- **2024-04-24** Made Special Order of the day No. 1 for 04/25/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments (19-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b81c146-d415-4fca-a60d-84f7d5965a6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).