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+type: "Bill"
+title: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
+description: "UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 705"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 705 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-05-10"
+last_action: "2021-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240986"
+source_hash: "d28603947502870548a0debf29bb6f6b6e5018255a0f43810668b8ca9c3ac35b"
+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 705 (2021) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB705 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222184)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #3990, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233303)
+3. **HB705 Act 455** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236017)
+4. **HB705 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222527)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3066, Ivey, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225344)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2671, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229238)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3083, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230569)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3284, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231238)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3396, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231865)
+10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3397, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231867)
+11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3238, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231135)
+12. **HB705 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234608)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#913) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1237) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#1111) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#915) — **12–0** (fail) · upper
+- AMENDMENT # 3066 BY IVEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#477) — **7–85** (fail) · lower
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1144) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-23** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 455. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
+- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2021-06-10** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2021-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Luneau, Reese, and Morris.
+- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2021-06-09** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2021-06-08** House conferees appointed: Riser, Carpenter, and Beaullieu.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
+- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-06-07** 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. `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-02** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
+- **2021-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-10** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 151 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (8-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+