republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2019/hb-245.md

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Bill	PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2019	HB 245	Louisiana HB 245 (2019)	bill		enacted	Valarie Hodges	10	25	3	2019-03-27	2019-06-06	openstates	ocd-bill/75f5d346-5b2c-484f-8dd2-d584c85466fc	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235973	e38c80d3274333e591d7af6188f07dd097a0cac8934f673c99c6a7cf44bfa3f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 245 (2019) — PROCUREMENT: Authorizes a public entity to reject the lowest bid on a procurement contract when a vendor engages in a boycott of Israel (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB245 Original (filed) — source
2. HB245 Act 155 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB245 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB245 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2129, Hodges, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor Amendment, #2246, Appel, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #2356, Morrell, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #3047, Long, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #3229, Morrell, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
10. HB245 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#907) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#995) — 85–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
• Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
• Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• James Armes — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
• John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
• Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor F. Barras — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-06 Effective date: 06/06/2019.
• 2019-06-06 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 155. executive-signature
• 2019-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2019-06-05 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2019-06-05 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2019-06-05 Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2019-06-04 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
• 2019-06-04 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2019-06-03 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
• 2019-06-03 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2019-05-30 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2019-05-30 Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
• 2019-05-30 Rules suspended.
• 2019-05-22 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2019-05-21 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2019-05-20 Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
• 2019-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. referral-committee
• 2019-05-09 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2019-05-08 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2019-05-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
• 2019-04-30 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2019-04-29 Reported favorably (18-0).
• 2019-04-08 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75f5d346-5b2c-484f-8dd2-d584c85466fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).