---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Folklife Commission and the Louisiana Tourism Development Commission"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Folklife Commission and the Louisiana Tourism Development Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 476"
citation: "Louisiana HB 476 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44fa171c-67df-44a0-b9ab-238e40921b78"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238192"
source_hash: "7b9fe7dd9f092fce7d85f4a7b805596e24d9253505ac2295d8a0c8e6f895dc18"
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 476 (2020) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Folklife Commission and the Louisiana Tourism Development Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB476 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163046)
2. **HB476 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180307)
3. **HB476 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170512)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1493, MPC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169647)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1624, MPC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170498)
6. **HB476 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176291)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#367) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#122) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 86. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-21** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44fa171c-67df-44a0-b9ab-238e40921b78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).