---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE DEPTS: Establishes service award eligibility for all qualified firefighters"
description: "FIRE PROTECT/FIRE DEPTS: Establishes service award eligibility for all qualified firefighters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 807"
citation: "Louisiana HB 807 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Fontenot"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ac4af5d-723d-493f-a770-67aed3f989a9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246952"
source_hash: "4d7258f4f6b04f8575805bf8810e30576b8096320aea02e0c3459fc3bbb518d5"
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 807 (2024) — FIRE PROTECT/FIRE DEPTS: Establishes service award eligibility for all qualified firefighters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB807 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359574)
2. **HB807 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379578)
3. **HB807 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367005)
4. **HB807 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375546)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#745) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#814) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Fontenot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 238. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** 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`
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** 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/4ac4af5d-723d-493f-a770-67aed3f989a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).