---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECURITIES: Provides relative to the filing of certain federal covered securities"
description: "SECURITIES: Provides relative to the filing of certain federal covered securities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 233"
citation: "Louisiana HB 233 (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/048a5a7d-88f8-43b5-bfa5-de7f1984fffc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233529"
source_hash: "3d68981ae5faeb5c619989c3ab005824e9613c48e563fdb60de7a65e1313d8d2"
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 233 (2018) — SECURITIES: Provides relative to the filing of certain federal covered securities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB233 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1069467)
2. **HB233 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096955)
3. **HB233 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076232)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1259, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075152)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1360, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076146)
6. **HB233 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090418)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **33–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 01/01/2019.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 74. `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 33 yeas and 1 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 95, 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/048a5a7d-88f8-43b5-bfa5-de7f1984fffc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).