republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-526.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Establishes a chief resilience officer and provides for interagency coordination of resilience planning (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Establishes a chief resilience officer and provides for interagency coordination of resilience planning (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 526"
citation: "Louisiana HB 526 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bfd47f3-1603-4fdb-96f1-1e17b70fefdb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244500"
source_hash: "afb149aa7cc632b3c502bf5ac9c65fee62e86a4118b3ab4c3dc4b39ba9afe67f"
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 526 (2023) — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION: Establishes a chief resilience officer and provides for interagency coordination of resilience planning (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB526 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309596)
2. **HB526 Act 315** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332468)
3. **HB526 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314358)
4. **HB526 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318310)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1267, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312549)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1505, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314274)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2237, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318126)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #736, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314387)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1503, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320915)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1860, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323081)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2052, Milligan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324583)
12. **HB526 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331074)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1111) — **99–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#200) — **88–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 06/13/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 315. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** 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 99, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-06** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 11. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bfd47f3-1603-4fdb-96f1-1e17b70fefdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).