---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Exempts the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board and the State Board of Architectural Examiners from time limitations for disciplinary proceedings by professional and occupational boards and commissions"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Exempts the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board and the State Board of Architectural Examiners from time limitations for disciplinary proceedings by professional and occupational boards and commissions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 196"
citation: "Louisiana HB 196 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reid Falconer"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21d2e22d-5d14-4672-99ff-f1c2a1249fab"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235899"
source_hash: "cf1a48a62dbe01b07db9e145e1410df8b4d38f4afe1130657dd36165e6a3f694"
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 196 (2019) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Exempts the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board and the State Board of Architectural Examiners from time limitations for disciplinary proceedings by professional and occupational boards and commissions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB196 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118809)
2. **HB196 Act 281** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144124)
3. **HB196 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128887)
4. **HB196 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132695)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1568, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127533)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1768, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128812)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2173, Falconer, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131115)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2304, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136740)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2650, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138325)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2409, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137489)
11. **HB196 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143106)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#913) — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#222) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#994) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reid Falconer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-13** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 281. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-03** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2019-05-27** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21d2e22d-5d14-4672-99ff-f1c2a1249fab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).