This amendment changes how much money is available in different state funds and extends deadlines for paying local governments that have active agreements with the state.
Louisiana2026Enacted
HB312
Supplemental Budget Bill for Louisiana Fiscal Year 2025-2026
Last scannedAug 25, 2026, 3:26 AM
In one sentence
This law adds extra money to specific state programs and reduces funding from other areas to pay for emergency recovery, infrastructure projects, veterans' services, and administrative needs.
What it does
- Provides funds for studying ways to expand access to early care and coordinating coastal protection plans.
- Allocates money for modernizing permit systems and supporting housing stabilization and crime prevention efforts in New Orleans.
- Pays costs related to closing out past hurricane claims, winter storm responses, and funding new emergency response equipment.
- Funds the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools only if House Bill No. 821 becomes law.
- Reduces existing budget amounts from several programs, including elections administration, public defense, and community development grants.
Who it affects
- State agencies such as the Executive Office, Department of Veterans Affairs, Governor's Office of Homeland Security, and Secretary of State.
- Programs serving veterans through disability benefit claims for National Guard members and home repairs at Louisiana Veterans Homes.
- Local efforts in New Orleans for housing stabilization and crime prevention.
- The Louisiana State Racing Commission.
Limits and unknowns
- The $15 million funding for the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools is only available if House Bill No. 821 becomes law.
- This bill was signed with line-item vetoes, meaning some specific amounts or items originally in the text may not be funded.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Supplemental Appropriations
- Extra money added to a budget after it was first approved for the year.
- State General Fund
- The main pool of state tax revenue used to pay for government services, as referenced in this bill's funding sources.
- Interagency Transfers
- Moving money from one government department's budget to another department's budget within the same fiscal year.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Makes supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2025-2026
Official activity
Bill history
- Effective date: 06/18/2026.H
- Signed by the Governor with one or more line-item vetoes. Becomes Act No. 961.H
- Sent to the Governor for executive approval.H
- Signed by the President of the Senate.S
- Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.H
- Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.H
- Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.H
- Received from the Senate with amendments.H
- Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.S
- Read by title; made Special Order of the Day No. 2 for 5/26.S
- Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.S
- Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.S
- Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.S
- Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.S
- Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.H
- Made Special Order of the day No. 4 for 04/16/2026.H
- Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.H
- Reported with amendments (17-0).H
- Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.H
- First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.H
Changes
Amendments
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This amendment adds new funding and adjusts existing budgets for various state programs, including early care studies, coastal protection, mental health services, infrastructure projects, military equipment, veterans' benefits, and school safety initiatives.
This amendment adds new funding and adjusts existing budgets for various state programs, including coastal protection, mental health services, infrastructure projects, veterans' benefits, and school safety initiatives.
This amendment records that the House voted to agree with changes made by the Senate to a bill about extra funding for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.
This amendment changes specific dollar amounts and project descriptions in a state budget bill by adding new funding for schools, local towns, and the Louisiana Veterans Museum while removing other proposed spending items.
This amendment changes how much money different state programs receive by adding funds for disaster recovery, rice marketing, and medical costs while cutting spending in other areas.
This amendment changes how much money different state programs receive by adding new funding for disaster recovery, rice marketing, and medical services while cutting costs in other areas.