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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
+description: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 398"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 398 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-01"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240310"
+source_hash: "e6c82d980ed68ba299f91d55d92126f012621f7e1ff89da4dd0338413b0b6f84"
+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 398 (2021) — ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB398 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210707)
+2. **HB398 Act 399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235797)
+3. **HB398 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224584)
+4. **HB398 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228734)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1028, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212677)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2496, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224741)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3548, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228707)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2113, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224954)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2991, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229971)
+10. **HB398 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233000)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#924) — **34–4** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **67–24** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 399. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-06** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2021-05-27** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-26** Called from the calendar.
+- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2021-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
+- **2021-05-24** Notice given.
+- **2021-05-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2021.
+- **2021-05-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-19** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-05-13** Reported with amendments (7-2-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
+- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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