republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-596.md

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Bill	LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions	LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 596	Louisiana HB 596 (2024)	bill		enacted	Daryl Deshotel	8	21	3	2024-03-01	2024-06-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d5dba500-513f-4923-8607-58c99342e7d5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246379	25e8628e0d561fc2f75e6e5a9427979e950ec610d793d96aff2b7c2935e382b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 596 (2024) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions

Version chain

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

1. HB596 Original (filed) — source
2. HB596 Act 713 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB596 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB596 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #3424, Deshotel, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2203, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #3764, Boudreaux, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB596 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#737) — 102–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1136) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1561) — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-19 Effective date: 01/01/2025.
• 2024-06-19 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 713. 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.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-23 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-23 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-13 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-08 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-01 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-30 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-29 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-25 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
• 2024-04-22 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-18 Reported favorably (14-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5dba500-513f-4923-8607-58c99342e7d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).