---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 535"
citation: "Louisiana HB 535 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mandie Landry"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 45
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ea24e49-a8ca-42c4-b697-ddd0454e7ba0"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248581"
source_hash: "38e64c96b87a083770976a3e0819e43a16bea0e7b5eb0befe7c7ef4288111344"
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 535 (2025) — LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR: Requires the Louisiana Legislative Auditor to evaluate state tax incentives (EN +$43,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB535 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404240)
2. **HB535 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425998)
3. **HB535 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416737)
4. **HB535 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420537)
5. **HB535 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418329)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2818, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414410)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3157, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416021)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3236, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416682)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #3459, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417862)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #3529, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418398)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #3881, Landry, Mandie, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420269)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3139, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423253)
13. **HB535 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425162)

## Votes

- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1137) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1243) — **82–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#774) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- DISCHARGE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (#1223) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#800) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mandie Landry — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 377. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 82, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Reconsidered.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Notice Senate discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2025-06-12** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
- **2025-06-12** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-11** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-11** Senate conference committee members appointed: Carter, Kleinpeter, and Miller.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Mandie Landry, Beaullieu, and Emerson.
- **2025-06-10** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **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`
- **2025-06-02** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Notice given.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2025.
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (10-0) with recommendation to recommit to the Committee on Ways and Means. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `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/6ea24e49-a8ca-42c4-b697-ddd0454e7ba0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).