---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Transportation and Development"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Transportation and Development"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 428"
citation: "Louisiana HB 428 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Bourriaque"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff745e0d-e67b-4089-ab19-0ff08276dd5c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248435"
source_hash: "33daf4b5ccc51728ae5d6702ce899196052253c59a17d2a51a52ad78aa163deb"
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 428 (2025) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Transportation and Development

## Version chain

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

1. **HB428 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403622)
2. **HB428 Act 276** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425589)
3. **HB428 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405593)
4. **HB428 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412042)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #569, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405970)
6. **HB428 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422899)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#200) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#716) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryan Bourriaque — primary (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/30/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-06** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-04-30** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-30** Notice given.
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-04-30** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Notice given.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff745e0d-e67b-4089-ab19-0ff08276dd5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).