HB 197 Louisiana House · 2024 Regular Session

SUNSET LAW: Provides relative to the re-creation of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism

This bill re-establishes the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and its related agencies to begin operations on June 30, 2024. It sets a specific expiration date of July 1, 2029, after which the department and its agencies will cease to exist unless the legislature passes a new law to extend them. The legislation also updates the state's sunset review schedule to include this department in the 2028 phase-out cycle.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
Apr 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 26, 2024 Signed May 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Apr 11, 2024

How they voted

36–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 39
May 16, 2024
D Democratic11
10 Yea 1
90% Yea
R Republican28
26 Yea 2
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 11, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (14-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Kim Carver
Kim Carver
RRepublican
LA
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