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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 185"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 185 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
+version_count: 15
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78780ba7-244e-44d8-adb6-34b5e3d37aef"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244597"
+source_hash: "e729f110c354f38ea1ae55921d5ae350335a30fccb3d00424b2a2f9a5de70204"
+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 SB 185 (2023) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB185 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309942)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #2975, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331275)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3241, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324012)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3248, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324144)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3307, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324665)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #3551, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325852)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #4107, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330118)
+8. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2081, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324790)
+9. **SB185 Act 331** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332549)
+10. **SB185 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316262)
+11. **SB185 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319859)
+12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #679, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313501)
+13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #954, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316152)
+14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1206, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318039)
+15. **SB185 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332055)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REJECT (#945) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1214) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1002) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#1001) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Reese — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-13** Effective date 6/13/2023.
+- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 331. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Davis, Pressly, and Wright.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Reese, Henry, and Harris.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
+- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
+- **2023-06-01** Notice given.
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-24** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-23** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78780ba7-244e-44d8-adb6-34b5e3d37aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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