republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-155.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Establishes the Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program to provide financial assistance to local governments and political subdivisions for certain capital infrastructure projects (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY: Establishes the Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program to provide financial assistance to local governments and political subdivisions for certain capital infrastructure projects (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 155"
citation: "Louisiana HB 155 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-23"
last_action: "2023-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eca1cffe-a795-48cd-80a0-7adc9994bd49"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244013"
source_hash: "6a178c63f2b4086eb8dea9d893e87539e49857d2ca12be3a9622d3dfa5dc3b01"
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 155 (2023) — CAPITAL OUTLAY: Establishes the Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program to provide financial assistance to local governments and political subdivisions for certain capital infrastructure projects (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB155 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1304906)
2. **HB155 Act 424** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333200)
3. **HB155 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311359)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1079, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311266)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2318, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326590)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2367, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326671)
7. **HB155 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330738)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#786) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1052) — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-27** Effective date: 07/01/2023.
- **2023-06-27** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 424. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 1. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2023.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-24** Reported favorably (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-12** Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eca1cffe-a795-48cd-80a0-7adc9994bd49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).