republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-56.md

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Bill	CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States	CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 56	Louisiana HB 56 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dodie Horton	6	22	4	2025-03-12	2025-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247943	62ec798a5e2460698668ac44c656540567876492b8d7457111789334d7aa198a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 56 (2025) — CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States

Version chain

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

1. HB56 Original (filed) — source
2. HB56 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB56 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #2303, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #2304, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB56 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#868) — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#556) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• CO-AUTHORS (#557) — 9–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#321) — 86–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodie Horton — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-10 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-03 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-02 The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-01 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-29 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-12 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 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 (9-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-14 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
• 2025-03-12 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).