---
type: "Bill"
title: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to solicitors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
description: "BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to solicitors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 359"
citation: "Louisiana HB 359 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Hollis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0d63a6d-e57f-449b-911e-0f6553e2482e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240259"
source_hash: "e8e23279135ee373ee4fd32dc5fbfc339ac848a7ed4659c70acd43c98e8ba9c0"
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 359 (2021) — BANKS/BANKING: Provides relative to solicitors (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB359 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209998)
2. **HB359 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235457)
3. **HB359 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213635)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1108, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213402)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1133, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213602)
6. **HB359 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231621)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#726) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#50) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul Hollis — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 267. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** 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 34 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.
- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Notice given.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2021.
- **2021-04-14** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-13** Reported with amendments (16-0).
- **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.
- **2021-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0d63a6d-e57f-449b-911e-0f6553e2482e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).