--- type: "Bill" title: "HIGHWAYS: Provides for the use of golf carts on certain highways in the municipalities of Church Point, Lake Arthur, and Westlake" description: "HIGHWAYS: Provides for the use of golf carts on certain highways in the municipalities of Church Point, Lake Arthur, and Westlake" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 353" citation: "Louisiana HB 353 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"] version_count: 9 action_count: 34 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2024-02-29" last_action: "2024-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ef471d2-8d85-4da8-9459-4856af7dbbca" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246036" source_hash: "2cf6b63cd89c03f5b26f1c75f0b924b36b8e8426044ac40f77cdf83885a8a762" 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 353 (2024) — HIGHWAYS: Provides for the use of golf carts on certain highways in the municipalities of Church Point, Lake Arthur, and Westlake ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB353 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349924) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #5008, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377281) 3. **HB353 Act 609** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382338) 4. **HB353 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367202) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #2947, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365256) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #3345, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367172) 7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3184, L&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372511) 8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3219, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372639) 9. **HB353 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381312) ## Votes - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1650) — **98–0** (pass) · lower - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1374) — **96–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#799) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - ADOPT (#1411) — **38–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **97–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Brett Geymann — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 609. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2024-05-31** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays. - **2024-05-30** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2024-05-30** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2024-05-29** Conference committee report received. - **2024-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2024. - **2024-05-29** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2024-05-28** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2024-05-28** Senate conference committee members appointed: Bouie, Hensgens, and Stine. - **2024-05-23** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2024-05-23** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2024-05-23** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Gadberry, and Romero. - **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order. - **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024. - **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024. - **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-04-18** Reported with amendments (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ef471d2-8d85-4da8-9459-4856af7dbbca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).