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type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC PRINTING: Provides for official journals for the state and political subdivisions and for publishing legal notices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "PUBLIC PRINTING: Provides for official journals for the state and political subdivisions and for publishing legal notices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 977"
citation: "Louisiana HB 977 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Josh Carlson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-25"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81f32017-c226-42cd-80be-c87eaf78f5cc"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247415"
source_hash: "d133538beeb101aee112d9aad5410d662457196d1f7622d9eb507a0967167a12"
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 977 (2024) — PUBLIC PRINTING: Provides for official journals for the state and political subdivisions and for publishing legal notices (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB977 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369278)
2. **HB977 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381944)
3. **HB977 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369288)
4. **HB977 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370712)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3985, Carlson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370458)
6. **HB977 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378171)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1124) — **350** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#799) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Josh Carlson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 464. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 680 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (7-6).
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81f32017-c226-42cd-80be-c87eaf78f5cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).