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type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Increases candidate qualifying fees and dedicates the monies to the Campaign Sign Recycling Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Increases candidate qualifying fees and dedicates the monies to the Campaign Sign Recycling Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 648"
citation: "Louisiana HB 648 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-22"
last_action: "2025-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f11ce07-259a-4530-bfad-c7983e05bcc5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248875"
source_hash: "7dc7b23a61a343a1ab183028a8632e706895b235d7c214090c2b74c654f1fb49"
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 648 (2025) — ELECTIONS/CANDIDATES: Increases candidate qualifying fees and dedicates the monies to the Campaign Sign Recycling Fund (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB648 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406952)
2. **HB648 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425144)
3. **HB648 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413202)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2162, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410995)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2532, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413049)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1509, Horton, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413297)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1962, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416297)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2100, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417008)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2074, Miguez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416954)
10. **HB648 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421525)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#458) — **944** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#523) — **360** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#823) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-08** Effective date: See Act.
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 213. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-01** 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`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-08** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f11ce07-259a-4530-bfad-c7983e05bcc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).