---
type: "Bill"
title: "LESSOR/LESSEE: Provides relative to residential lease applications"
description: "LESSOR/LESSEE: Provides relative to residential lease applications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 374"
citation: "Louisiana HB 374 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4f705d6-47d0-4341-a0ce-99ec5c780fd6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240286"
source_hash: "9b5c845778ff2af6e23e2d17ff442bbbac09538ab202908943c409a79aadea92"
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 374 (2021) — LESSOR/LESSEE: Provides relative to residential lease applications

## Version chain

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

1. **HB374 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210490)
2. **HB374 Act 422** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235923)
3. **HB374 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217558)
4. **HB374 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220216)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1608, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216966)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1721, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217521)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1750, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217740)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2066, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219778)
9. **HB374 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229585)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#571) — **36–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#154) — **87–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 422. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 10. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4f705d6-47d0-4341-a0ce-99ec5c780fd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).