republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-297.md

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Bill	CONTRACTS: Provides for a "contract limit" for public works projects by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)	CONTRACTS: Provides for a "contract limit" for public works projects by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 297	Louisiana HB 297 (2025)	bill		enacted	Francis C. Thompson	9	27	3	2025-04-02	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/59fe9597-0c49-4ef1-9fb4-6c16368d1067	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248262	1bd7f34400009ef29cfd19f83692c6f45f8c9bae03412a338cbcb25b9b4c2f42	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 297 (2025) — CONTRACTS: Provides for a "contract limit" for public works projects by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (EN DECREASE SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB297 Original (filed) — source
2. HB297 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB297 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB297 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2484, Thompson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2672, Thompson, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3245, Bourriaque, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #3095, Cloud, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB297 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#812) — 36–2 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1116) — 83–3 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#512) — 87–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Francis C. Thompson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 350. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-12 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-12 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-11 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-10 Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 3, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-09 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
• 2025-06-09 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-09 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-09 Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
• 2025-06-08 Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended.
• 2025-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-04 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-20 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-20 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
• 2025-05-12 Notice given.
• 2025-05-12 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
• 2025-05-07 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Reported favorably (10-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59fe9597-0c49-4ef1-9fb4-6c16368d1067. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).