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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for a public records exception for certain records of the State Board of Architectural Examiners concerning the fitness of a person to receive or hold a license or certificate of registration to practice architecture"
+description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for a public records exception for certain records of the State Board of Architectural Examiners concerning the fitness of a person to receive or hold a license or certificate of registration to practice architecture"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 255"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 255 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Reid Falconer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-28"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ace55933-ef55-46bd-bad4-1b8c3baf5b9b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233552"
+source_hash: "77c1ff3f5507a22246e75fd0497cf2b5d19a2b8d520b0ea15c8d4d7b3201556f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 255 (2018) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for a public records exception for certain records of the State Board of Architectural Examiners concerning the fitness of a person to receive or hold a license or certificate of registration to practice architecture
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB255 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069653)
+2. **HB255 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096958)
+3. **HB255 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077475)
+4. **HB255 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093061)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#713) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#168) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Reid Falconer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 05/10/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-25** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
+- **2018-03-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably (8-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ace55933-ef55-46bd-bad4-1b8c3baf5b9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+