---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOBBYING: Provides for the disclosure of foreign adversaries (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)"
description: "LOBBYING: Provides for the disclosure of foreign adversaries (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 686"
citation: "Louisiana HB 686 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 47
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-05-12"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3562022-77b5-497a-8009-3dee847e4df5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249128"
source_hash: "77550009c8a4a59dcb80bed64bc668de9264eb93cb96393cdc10a8c0aee15450"
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 686 (2025) — LOBBYING: Provides for the disclosure of foreign adversaries (EN +$100,000 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB686 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413146)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4410, House Adopted, Senate Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424887)
3. **HB686 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426020)
4. **HB686 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413223)
5. **HB686 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417316)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3230, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416477)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2655, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420690)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2776, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421386)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2859, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421672)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3096, Kleinpeter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422734)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3128, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423111)
12. **HB686 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425314)

## Votes

- DISCHARGE (#986) — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#553) — **82–11** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1152) — **85–2** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1258) — **86–6** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#792) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1270) — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 12/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 394. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** 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 93, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **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.
- **2025-06-12** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **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** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 86, nays 6. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-12** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **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: Miguez, Miller, and Jenkins.
- **2025-06-11** House conferees appointed: Owen, Beaullieu, and Farnum.
- **2025-06-10** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 2, 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** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-06-04** Rules suspended. Recalled from the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Notice given.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Notice given.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 511 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (10-5).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3562022-77b5-497a-8009-3dee847e4df5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).