---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to budgets adopted by library boards of control"
description: "LIBRARIES: Provides relative to budgets adopted by library boards of control"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 848"
citation: "Louisiana HB 848 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steven Jackson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f94ec11a-ab6a-4ad6-8404-3c1f2b12f987"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247004"
source_hash: "89c6c361c3c82c81cfc971ae26a45557f3a528153a64bcb1b914b1d7885b2243"
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 848 (2024) — LIBRARIES: Provides relative to budgets adopted by library boards of control

## Version chain

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

1. **HB848 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360502)
2. **HB848 Act 736** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382763)
3. **HB848 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369516)
4. **HB848 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371236)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3615, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368493)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3778, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369508)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #4075, Jackson, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371059)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2639, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369653)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4436, Jackson-Andrews, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380994)
10. **HB848 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381705)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1472) — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- To the Senate to consider after 82 day (#1756) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 vote (#1471) — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1758) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#837) — **72–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steven Jackson — 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. Becomes Act No. 736. `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`
- **2024-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-06-03** By a vote of 95 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-06-03** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-06-03** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 28 yeas and 7 nays.
- **2024-06-03** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- **2024-06-03** Notice House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/2024.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments (17-0). `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/f94ec11a-ab6a-4ad6-8404-3c1f2b12f987`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).