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Louisiana 2026

HB 398

PUBLIC OFFLS/EMPS: Prohibits payment for meals and incidental expenses for state public officials and employees from exceeding amounts for such expenses established by the U.S. General Services Administration

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-25 00:00:00

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  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 799.

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  2. Effective date: 07/01/2026.

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

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  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 89, nays 5, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

  8. Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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  9. Received from the Senate with amendments.

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  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  11. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. Reported favorably.

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  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.

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  14. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

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  15. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 63, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  16. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2026.

  18. Reported with amendments (9-0).

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  19. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

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  20. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  21. Prefiled.

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  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

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