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---
type: "Bill"
title: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to criminal penalties for accepting overpayment of unemployment benefits"
description: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to criminal penalties for accepting overpayment of unemployment benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "Louisiana HB 247 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49ebab4c-ccaa-444a-885f-1ec413bfb00b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245860"
source_hash: "2376de5a4163c33aeb2082180e93ab7aec0067df2c457501491fa56cf612a778"
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 247 (2024) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to criminal penalties for accepting overpayment of unemployment benefits
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB247 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347781)
2. **HB247 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382292)
3. **HB247 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364900)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2549, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363151)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2864, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364848)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3796, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375780)
7. **HB247 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379756)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — **8012** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1538) — **7315** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1055) — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Michael Echols — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 12/31/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 553. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 15, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 12. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported with amendments (9-5). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49ebab4c-ccaa-444a-885f-1ec413bfb00b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).