---
type: "Bill"
title: "TELEVISION/CABLE: Prohibits discontinuation of cable service without prior notice"
description: "TELEVISION/CABLE: Prohibits discontinuation of cable service without prior notice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 308"
citation: "Louisiana HB 308 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Adams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a8d15d4-458e-4be5-8aa0-1e1c05caa1ea"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245946"
source_hash: "ff8011686c3ee02b6e7b284d9a5a14feb0394419cf874eacb596e7606e12817c"
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 308 (2024) — TELEVISION/CABLE: Prohibits discontinuation of cable service without prior notice

## Version chain

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

1. **HB308 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349043)
2. **HB308 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380502)
3. **HB308 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355253)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1304, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354979)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1329, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355225)
6. **HB308 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375700)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#49) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#864) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daryl Adams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 374. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/2024.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-18** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/0a8d15d4-458e-4be5-8aa0-1e1c05caa1ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).