republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-537.md

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Bill	CONTRACTS: Provides for a prohibition against foreign adversary purchasing, leasing, or acquiring land (EN GF EX See Note)	CONTRACTS: Provides for a prohibition against foreign adversary purchasing, leasing, or acquiring land (EN GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 537	Louisiana HB 537 (2023)	bill		enacted	Valarie Hodges	20	23	4	2023-03-31	2023-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/3a9e1c31-ba30-4000-84cd-eea3fbc93f94	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244512	c3bec816434a683ed851081440e4ceb9d0a36c3b34c16abf712c1142fa0df22c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 537 (2023) — CONTRACTS: Provides for a prohibition against foreign adversary purchasing, leasing, or acquiring land (EN GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB537 Original (filed) — source
2. HB537 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB537 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB537 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2850, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2856, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2871, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2933, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #3352, Hodges, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #3397, Miller, G., Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. House Floor Amendment, #3440, Bacala, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. House Floor Amendment, #3455, Magee, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1834, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #2389, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Committee Amendment, #2441, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
16. Senate Committee Amendment, #2723, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
17. Senate Floor Amendment, #2833, Cathey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
18. Senate Floor Amendment, #2848, Stine, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
19. Senate Floor Amendment, #2850, Luneau, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
20. HB537 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#589) — 76–24 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2850 BY LUNEAU, HB 537 BY HODGES (#826) — 14–24 (fail) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1095) — 73–26 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#827) — 26–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Valarie Hodges — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-27 Effective date: 08/01/2023.
• 2023-06-27 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 464. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-07 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2023-06-07 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2023-06-06 Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 26, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2023-06-05 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-06-02 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2023-06-02 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2023-06-02 Rules suspended.
• 2023-06-02 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-25 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-24 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2023-05-23 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-05-18 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
• 2023-05-17 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-16 Reported with amendments (11-1-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
• 2023-03-31 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a9e1c31-ba30-4000-84cd-eea3fbc93f94. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).