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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 685: STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion in state agencies (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 685 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on May 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: STATE AGENCIES: Provides relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion in state agencies (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX). Primary sponsor: Emily Chenevert (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 21, 2025): Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Emily ChenevertPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse66

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
  2. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
  3. Called from the calendar.
  4. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 57, nays 32. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
  5. Read by title, returned to the calendar.
  6. Notice given.
  7. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
  8. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
  9. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
  10. Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 421 reported by the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs (10-6).

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source