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type: "Bill"
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title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
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description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 695"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 695 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-05-20"
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last_action: "2025-06-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5c7cfb9-1894-4662-9777-62ff55d0a85f"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=249228"
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source_hash: "c728d1c6670ef4931bda3fa739265a74d4d8424999399eac9af2bdbed762d487"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 695 (2025) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to gold and silver as legal tender (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB695 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415952)
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2. **HB695 Act 304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425620)
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3. **HB695 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415975)
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4. **HB695 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423519)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#607) — **84–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#795) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
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- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
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- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
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- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
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- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
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- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
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- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
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- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
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- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
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- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
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- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 304. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
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- **2025-06-08** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
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- **2025-05-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-05-20** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 386 reported by the Committee on Commerce (7-6-1).
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5c7cfb9-1894-4662-9777-62ff55d0a85f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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