---
type: "Bill"
title: "REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to real estate appraisers"
description: "REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to real estate appraisers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 340"
citation: "Louisiana HB 340 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Hollis"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12c6cae7-0ca9-4190-9ace-d430ff8caa5c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236123"
source_hash: "ea77cd2547c3a99449aa8651f17b5b9ed859543440876672e53b515b8e5eea9f"
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 340 (2019) — REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to real estate appraisers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB340 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120783)
2. **HB340 Act 37** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143866)
3. **HB340 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126444)
4. **HB340 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128784)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1277, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125781)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1384, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126425)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1760, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128591)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1643, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132500)
9. **HB340 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142523)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#527) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#342) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#93) — **87–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul Hollis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/19.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 37. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-14** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-09** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-29** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/19.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-23** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12c6cae7-0ca9-4190-9ace-d430ff8caa5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).