---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board"
description: "ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 305"
citation: "Louisiana HB 305 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foy Gadberry"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96c1b6b7-4e8f-4695-92a1-4c93a968fbb2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241931"
source_hash: "e86874615fea4d88ff20269f87a20bef173479c0a6c99679616edf94712f34f1"
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 305 (2022) — ENGINEERS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board

## Version chain

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

1. **HB305 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253755)
2. **HB305 Act 145** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286080)
3. **HB305 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270756)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2680, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270217)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2755, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270617)
6. **HB305 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280361)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#468) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#668) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foy Gadberry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 145. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2022.
- **2022-04-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-18** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96c1b6b7-4e8f-4695-92a1-4c93a968fbb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).