---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board. (1/1/21) (Item #32)"
description: "ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board. (1/1/21) (Item #32)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "Louisiana SB 17 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-28"
last_action: "2020-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/866e054f-b019-4f89-93ba-abd807bad494"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239459"
source_hash: "90959de9d560750076da4f40f7864bb80d59f7604201714914d66a57386406f1"
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 SB 17 (2020s2) — ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board. (1/1/21) (Item #32)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB17 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189212)
2. **SB17 Act 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193324)
3. **SB17 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189980)
4. **SB17 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190271)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #136, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189684)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #158, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189834)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #202, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190250)
8. **SB17 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191399)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-16** Effective date 1/1/2021.
- **2020-10-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 2. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 10/8/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-12** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-12** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate on 10/8/2020.
- **2020-10-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-10-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/06/20.
- **2020-10-05** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-05** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-10-05** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-02** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-09-30** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-09-28** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/866e054f-b019-4f89-93ba-abd807bad494`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).