---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 as the \"Claude 'Buddy' Leach Memorial Highway\""
description: "HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 as the \"Claude 'Buddy' Leach Memorial Highway\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 922"
citation: "Louisiana HB 922 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed679ce8-b95d-462d-a190-754239d3b144"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247130"
source_hash: "901c8b85c7acc21c7ec096f2daa06e5ca7051c34e3f8c745e0201c22db7939e1"
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 922 (2024) — HIGHWAYS/INTERSTATE: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 171 as the "Claude 'Buddy' Leach Memorial Highway"

## Version chain

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

1. **HB922 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361284)
2. **HB922 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380544)
3. **HB922 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363109)
4. **HB922 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375685)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#880) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (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. 392. `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 36 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** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/ed679ce8-b95d-462d-a190-754239d3b144`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).