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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to locksmith licensing"
+description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to locksmith licensing"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 607"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 607 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2069524f-13b1-4e9a-b380-642a8e71928f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246413"
+source_hash: "5b2b6d5d0609beabb84ca28261613a848753d40edb50a47122e2f4e8742e7ff4"
+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 607 (2024) — LICENSING: Provides relative to locksmith licensing
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB607 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352170)
+2. **HB607 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380525)
+3. **HB607 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363360)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2420, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362521)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2556, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363253)
+6. **HB607 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375897)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#455) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#872) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles Owen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 385. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2024.
+- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2069524f-13b1-4e9a-b380-642a8e71928f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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