---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 45"
citation: "Louisiana HB 45 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d16086ea-b123-44c6-b668-3c9436f37119"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241519"
source_hash: "a4087d5ceea7805e0ff9f48cf68edc498e6726c408969dc67a86ce7f27915968"
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 45 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of State and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law

## Version chain

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

1. **HB45 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1245518)
2. **HB45 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280891)
3. **HB45 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259922)
4. **HB45 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261821)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1415, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260622)
6. **HB45 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278426)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#45) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#536) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 06/30/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 20. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2022.
- **2022-03-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-17** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/4/2022.
- **2022-02-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d16086ea-b123-44c6-b668-3c9436f37119`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).