republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-648.md

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Bill	TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 648	Louisiana HB 648 (2021)	bill		enacted	Daryl Deshotel	16	24	4	2021-04-02	2021-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/fa5b9a0c-9173-4356-a7ca-fbb48b29e7ec	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240643	e8c4c6e6bd16b136a7705358d803ffd254cc9b7df1cf7d0a855c930635f04c19	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 648 (2021) — TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Establishes a grant program to be administered by the office of broadband development and connectivity in the division of administration (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. HB648 Original (filed) — source
2. HB648 Act 477 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB648 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB648 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB648 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1618, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1631, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #1648, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. House Committee Amendment, #1657, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Committee Amendment, #2139, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. House Committee Amendment, #2218, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. House Floor Amendment, #2498, Deshotel, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. House Floor Amendment, #2678, Deshotel, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Floor Amendment, #3555, Cloud, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2850, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. HB648 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#385) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#875) — 16–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#874) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1139) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-29 Effective date: 07/01/2021.
• 2021-06-29 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 477. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-08 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-06-07 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-07 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
• 2021-06-01 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-27 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-26 Reported favorably.
• 2021-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-11 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
• 2021-05-05 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-04 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2021-04-27 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2021-04-26 Reported with amendments (13-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
• 2021-04-02 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa5b9a0c-9173-4356-a7ca-fbb48b29e7ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).