republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-446.md

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Bill	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 446	Louisiana HB 446 (2024)	bill		enacted	Stephanie Hilferty	10	28	3	2024-02-29	2024-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a8084ec7-47a1-47e8-8ba7-21609537e8f4	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246149	53b0090b6ab5d7532332dcac37c50835592e01898c34c5fe47e96eaac4ac1cc2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 446 (2024) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides relative to notifications of public meetings and duties of public bodies and the commissioner of administration relative thereto (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB446 Original (filed) — source
2. HB446 Act 617 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB446 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB446 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB446 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2890, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2968, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1980, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #4441, Carter, Gary, Proposed (committee substitute) — source
10. HB446 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1413) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#610) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1718) — 101–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 617. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-06-02 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-31 Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-31 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-31 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-31 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
• 2024-05-31 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2024-05-29 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2024-05-29 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-28 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-28 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2024-05-23 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2024-05-22 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-23 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-18 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
• 2024-04-16 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-15 Reported with amendments (18-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2024-04-04 Reported favorably (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8084ec7-47a1-47e8-8ba7-21609537e8f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).