---
type: "Bill"
title: "REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board's authorization to collect assessments"
description: "REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board's authorization to collect assessments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 593"
citation: "Louisiana HB 593 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-17"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec6a8655-13ee-491e-8ddd-12ebe15f0d52"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236636"
source_hash: "97137a1dadf1b73b1a4c99765d904710c1d9a86b23c5592542b3d4caa4673bb7"
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 593 (2019) — REAL ESTATE/APPRAISERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board's authorization to collect assessments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB593 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125348)
2. **HB593 Act 252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144118)
3. **HB593 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128883)
4. **HB593 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139713)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#565) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 252. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/19.
- **2019-05-01** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-30** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec6a8655-13ee-491e-8ddd-12ebe15f0d52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).