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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ARCHITECTS: Provides for exemptions to the licensing and registration requirements for architects. (1/1/25)"
+description: "ARCHITECTS: Provides for exemptions to the licensing and registration requirements for architects. (1/1/25)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 396"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 396 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-25"
+last_action: "2024-05-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/147db60c-9b8d-4e84-88f4-3fe44b678fef"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246846"
+source_hash: "03a10b678a52fa7594f386cc3d5cd43a0e4712b6f7c1cacee7ed7eacf12e7b97"
+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 396 (2024) — ARCHITECTS: Provides for exemptions to the licensing and registration requirements for architects. (1/1/25)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB396 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357459)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3218, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366494)
+3. **SB396 Act 104** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378098)
+4. **SB396 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358948)
+5. **SB396 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364144)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1223, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358223)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1337, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358904)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1709, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363202)
+9. **SB396 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374453)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#244) — **33–4** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1034) — **88–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-21** Effective date 7/1/2025.
+- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 104. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 10. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
+- **2024-04-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-25** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/147db60c-9b8d-4e84-88f4-3fe44b678fef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+