---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADVERTISING: Provides relative to misleading solicitations by nongovernmental entities"
description: "ADVERTISING: Provides relative to misleading solicitations by nongovernmental entities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 64"
citation: "Louisiana HB 64 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-05"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f547cc4-248d-48d4-9dd1-9d63e6d28f5d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239857"
source_hash: "6e9e6c99346996454ed1905c5f13e006a9f0588d70f43eade0c1f47c7581170d"
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 64 (2021) — ADVERTISING: Provides relative to misleading solicitations by nongovernmental entities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB64 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202428)
2. **HB64 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235461)
3. **HB64 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214887)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2625, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228141)
5. **HB64 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232557)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#731) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1010) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#40) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 269. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-02** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** 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 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-19** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-05** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f547cc4-248d-48d4-9dd1-9d63e6d28f5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).