republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-547.md

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Bill	RACING/HORSE: Authorizes fixed odds wagering on horse races (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	RACING/HORSE: Authorizes fixed odds wagering on horse races (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 547	Louisiana HB 547 (2025)	bill		enacted	Chad Boyer	9	22	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/d840d804-ef7d-4683-ae9f-57292074927f	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248593	edac1b5c99f2bc3b0b4a4f8f51f31e9eb833b9c5e7b801bdd6c917eab26b8594	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 547 (2025) — RACING/HORSE: Authorizes fixed odds wagering on horse races (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB547 Original (filed) — source
2. HB547 Act 291 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB547 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2553, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2645, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2617, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #2744, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3078, Talbot, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB547 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#725) — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#714) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1009) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chad Boyer — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Rashid Young — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date: 06/11/2025.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 291. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-10 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-08 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-04 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-03 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-01 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-29 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-29 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-28 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/2025.
• 2025-05-28 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-27 Reported favorably (14-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-13 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-05-12 Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d840d804-ef7d-4683-ae9f-57292074927f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).