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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States"
description: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to the freedom to display the flag of the United States"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Louisiana HB 56 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodie Horton"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247943"
source_hash: "62ec798a5e2460698668ac44c656540567876492b8d7457111789334d7aa198a"
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 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](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396383)
2. **HB56 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425476)
3. **HB56 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411542)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2303, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418540)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2304, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418541)
6. **HB56 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422146)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ac11ca1-3091-478a-9479-c7512d6b6032`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).