republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-216.md

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Bill	ETHICS/BOARD: Provides for the broadcast and recordation of meetings of the Board of Ethics (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	ETHICS/BOARD: Provides for the broadcast and recordation of meetings of the Board of Ethics (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 216	Louisiana HB 216 (2025)	bill		enacted	Steven Jackson	5	19	2	2025-04-01	2025-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bfd606c2-ec8e-4f78-8316-2e602ebe1ea1	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248143	e96c656902070cc0b315dafb13c9c6f5dc1af094e449dcda0a959e776c329603	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 216 (2025) — ETHICS/BOARD: Provides for the broadcast and recordation of meetings of the Board of Ethics (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB216 Original (filed) — source
2. HB216 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB216 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1573, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. HB216 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#136) — 85–15 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#491) — 34–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Steven Jackson — primary (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-08 Effective date: 01/01/2026.
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 162. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-02 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-02 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-29 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-27 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-21 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-05 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-04-30 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-04-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (14-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfd606c2-ec8e-4f78-8316-2e602ebe1ea1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).