--- type: "Bill" title: "REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to renewal of real estate licenses and timeshare registrations" description: "REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to renewal of real estate licenses and timeshare registrations" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2021" identifier: "HB 258" citation: "Louisiana HB 258 (2021)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Kathy Edmonston"] version_count: 6 action_count: 20 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2021-03-29" last_action: "2021-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/103c037e-7c04-4dc6-ba4e-825185078dc6" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240113" source_hash: "8574c7fdef66054c7a7d95d87912c1a03eeaf18da7a9d2d76947bfc30a078b56" 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 258 (2021) — REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to renewal of real estate licenses and timeshare registrations ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB258 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208168) 2. **HB258 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235204) 3. **HB258 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222675) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #2506, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222328) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #2567, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222593) 6. **HB258 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231457) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#474) — **90–1** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#720) — **36–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Kathy Edmonston — primary (person) - Ed Price — cosponsor (person) - Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-06-11** Effective date: See Act. - **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 193. `executive-signature` - **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021. - **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. - **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2021-05-26** Reported favorably. - **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee` - **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. - **2021-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021. - **2021-05-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. - **2021-05-10** Reported with amendments (9-0). - **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee` - **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021. - **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee` - **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/103c037e-7c04-4dc6-ba4e-825185078dc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).