---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECURITIES: Authorizes the imposition of certain civil monetary penalties and fees relative to violations of administrative rule"
description: "SECURITIES: Authorizes the imposition of certain civil monetary penalties and fees relative to violations of administrative rule"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 232"
citation: "Louisiana HB 232 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88c750ad-6aa6-486a-bc90-cf8d1762e9d1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233528"
source_hash: "ca333483d4ad0d8736f2618343e8e82029891c9360c3da262890eabb1b7989d9"
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 232 (2018) — SECURITIES: Authorizes the imposition of certain civil monetary penalties and fees relative to violations of administrative rule

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB232 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069451)
2. **HB232 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096954)
3. **HB232 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076224)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1258, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075146)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1357, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076137)
6. **HB232 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090415)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#529) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 05/10/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 73. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-26** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-18** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/18.
- **2018-03-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-19** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88c750ad-6aa6-486a-bc90-cf8d1762e9d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).