---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to professional geoscientists"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to professional geoscientists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 169"
citation: "Louisiana HB 169 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-24"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e32b058-b2bc-42ed-aa5e-89c85872b472"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241737"
source_hash: "6881f7c7e1e635381ddb878ee6b0a489609f73d74018c438842edad4a2a7fc1e"
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 169 (2022) — LICENSING: Provides relative to professional geoscientists

## Version chain

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

1. **HB169 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1250432)
2. **HB169 Act 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280884)
3. **HB169 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259417)
4. **HB169 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275856)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#24) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#453) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-13** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 14. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2022.
- **2022-03-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-15** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e32b058-b2bc-42ed-aa5e-89c85872b472`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).