republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-461.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 461"
citation: "Louisiana HB 461 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack McFarland"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0acc3ec-835f-432c-a9b7-ba64712d7863"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248469"
source_hash: "d70ded039ba777be25ec189abe58595cf1c1e25fdcf6203b24bb752bc8975782"
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 461 (2025) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the transfer, deposit, and use of monies among state funds

## Version chain

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

1. **HB461 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403725)
2. **HB461 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425978)
3. **HB461 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413837)
4. **HB461 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415446)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1324, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406264)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2625, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413773)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1648, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414123)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2171, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417706)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2678, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420743)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2835, Womack, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421564)
11. **HB461 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425026)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#425) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#822) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1232) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack McFarland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 365. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 102, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2025-06-10** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Notice given.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 3 for 6/9/2025.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Made Special Order of the day No. 5 for 05/15/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (23-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0acc3ec-835f-432c-a9b7-ba64712d7863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).