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+type: "Bill"
+title: "BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to permits for construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
+description: "BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to permits for construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 85"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 85 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Foy Gadberry"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-20"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08aabc4f-7e2b-4c6b-b216-7268078d3df6"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247982"
+source_hash: "d2bddef0bd9b11eaa1973ef76629d7ce645a0c6bdc6c7d0801eb45353994493b"
+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 85 (2025) — BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to permits for construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB85 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1397529)
+2. **HB85 Act 239** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425546)
+3. **HB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414237)
+4. **HB85 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415970)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2657, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413567)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2760, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414214)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2845, Gadberry, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414617)
+8. **HB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422812)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#436) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#686) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Foy Gadberry — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 239. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
+- **2025-05-14** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-13** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
+- **2025-03-20** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08aabc4f-7e2b-4c6b-b216-7268078d3df6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+