republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-624.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Transfers certain family and support programs from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and renames Louisiana Workforce Commission to Louisiana Works (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Transfers certain family and support programs from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and renames Louisiana Workforce Commission to Louisiana Works (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 624	Louisiana HB 624 (2025)	bill		enacted	Stephanie Berault	16	29	4	2025-04-04	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/40576a86-5996-4504-a544-810cb10ea791	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248719	b46c3efb37775bcea046478a38c8cad7366b392e17cd180bdc63231b52ca43e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 624 (2025) — WORKFORCE COMMISSION: Transfers certain family and support programs from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission and renames Louisiana Workforce Commission to Louisiana Works (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB624 Original (filed) — source
2. HB624 Act 478 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB624 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB624 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB624 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1511, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1515, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #1590, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Committee Amendment, #3026, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. House Committee Amendment, #3123, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. House Floor Amendment, #3305, Berault, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2047, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Committee Amendment, #2652, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
14. Senate Committee Amendment, #2879, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
15. Senate Floor Amendment, #3043, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
16. HB624 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#789) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#536) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1196) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#790) — 9–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Stephanie Berault — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
• William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date: See Act.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 478. 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.
• 2025-06-12 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-11 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-11 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-11 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2025-06-10 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/11/2025.
• 2025-06-10 Notice given.
• 2025-06-10 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-09 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
• 2025-06-09 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-09 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-08 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-06-08 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-06-08 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2025-06-04 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-28 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-27 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
• 2025-05-20 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-19 Reported with amendments (16-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-04-23 Reported with amendments (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40576a86-5996-4504-a544-810cb10ea791. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).