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type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2024-2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 781"
citation: "Louisiana HB 781 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-03-26"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cff1f7e0-e6ef-4182-b41f-ef3ee547043f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246890"
source_hash: "32cc0b1f50da77cf99673b76e01005e596b2ba13d8caa390ea61505d4a7d0286"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---
# Louisiana HB 781 (2024) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2024-2025
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB781 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358013)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #5278, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380069)
3. **HB781 Act 775** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383073)
4. **HB781 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368554)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2848, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364757)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3593, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368519)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3056, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371820)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4220, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378519)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4429, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380930)
10. **HB781 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381775)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#729) — **1020** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1736) — **1040** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1494) — **380** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1780) — **960** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1434) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jack McFarland — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 775. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended.
- **2024-06-03** Conference Committee report received.
- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2024-06-02** Senate conference committee members appointed: Womack, Harris, and Luneau.
- **2024-06-02** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2024-06-02** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2024-06-02** House conferees appointed: McFarland, DeVillier, and Zeringue.
- **2024-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2024-06-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2024.
- **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** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Made Special Order of the day No. 9 for 04/25/2024.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Reported with amendments (20-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cff1f7e0-e6ef-4182-b41f-ef3ee547043f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).