republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-245.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	FISCAL CONTROLS: Creates the "Transparent Responsible Use of State Tax-dollars (T.R.U.S.T.) Act" to provide for requirements for nongovernmental entities and provides for a nongovernmental entity database. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	FISCAL CONTROLS: Creates the "Transparent Responsible Use of State Tax-dollars (T.R.U.S.T.) Act" to provide for requirements for nongovernmental entities and provides for a nongovernmental entity database. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 245	Louisiana SB 245 (2025)	bill		enacted	Heather Cloud	10	19	3	2025-05-14	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2c5345eb-89ce-4a6b-98ee-13e48c509a70	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249183	ed9b06c97365e407a491e37d4d2a4b35bc3dd766d69976891e5ad3af73eb437f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 245 (2025) — FISCAL CONTROLS: Creates the "Transparent Responsible Use of State Tax-dollars (T.R.U.S.T.) Act" to provide for requirements for nongovernmental entities and provides for a nongovernmental entity database. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Version chain

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

1. SB245 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3816, APP, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #3879, APP, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #4288, Bacala, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB245 Act (committee substitute) — source
6. SB245 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SB245 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #1998, Reese, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #2010, Cloud, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB245 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#900) — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#290) — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1028) — 72–28 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Heather Cloud — primary (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-30 Effective date 6/30/2025.
• 2025-06-30 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 467. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-11 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-11 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-10 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 30 yeas and 7 nays.
• 2025-06-09 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-09 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 28. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-09 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-06-09 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-06-04 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/09/2025.
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-06-03 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-06-02 Reported with amendments (21-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-05-20 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-19 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-05-14 Substitute for Senate Bill No. 184. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c5345eb-89ce-4a6b-98ee-13e48c509a70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).