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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office"
+description: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 395"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 395 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-30"
+last_action: "2023-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6d9c982-4b54-4557-a0fa-3a9f98bb179b"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244318"
+source_hash: "7a169521f46ced3813dc6bc4f8e15da6416a24164e163d89c02c677a3aeaaffc"
+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 395 (2023) — SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB395 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308528)
+2. **HB395 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328149)
+3. **HB395 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311352)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1045, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311060)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1089, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311254)
+6. **HB395 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325316)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#31) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#402) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
+- **2023-04-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6d9c982-4b54-4557-a0fa-3a9f98bb179b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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