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---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
description: "TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 544"
citation: "Louisiana HB 544 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delisha Boyd"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b93d47ea-acf8-4d78-8983-0579dfa2ae8c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246302"
source_hash: "4074285ae120deca873b0833741a54e93171712c88010b521e4174f0796d5598"
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 544 (2024) — TRANSPORTATION: Provides relative to the Regional Transit Authority
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB544 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351531)
2. **HB544 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381954)
3. **HB544 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361270)
4. **HB544 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363530)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2173, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360693)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2183, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361053)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2435, Boyd, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362616)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1512, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361721)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2798, THPW, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370451)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2872, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370919)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3450, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373944)
12. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3010, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371611)
13. **HB544 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377611)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#311) — **1000** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1182) — **930** (pass) · lower
- HB 544 BY BOYD (#667) — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Delisha Boyd — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 474 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b93d47ea-acf8-4d78-8983-0579dfa2ae8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).