republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-551.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022-2023"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022-2023"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 551"
citation: "Louisiana HB 551 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5025454-b2d3-4a3f-a5e6-03cf4d025e6f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244539"
source_hash: "4d86f8bc3ba7f0e5a1a86d4abfa16ee3331175bb9e21166fdeb1445ea70679bc"
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 551 (2023) — APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022-2023

## Version chain

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

1. **HB551 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309719)
2. **HB551 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328151)
3. **HB551 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312080)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1401, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319467)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1461, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319710)
6. **HB551 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325328)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#609) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#86) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#344) — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-17** 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`
- **2023-05-17** Rules suspended. The bill was taken out of order.
- **2023-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-19** Notice given.
- **2023-04-19** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2023.
- **2023-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-17** Reported favorably (17-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `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 Appropriations. `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/c5025454-b2d3-4a3f-a5e6-03cf4d025e6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).