---
type: "Bill"
title: "BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to the State Uniform Construction Code"
description: "BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to the State Uniform Construction Code"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 571"
citation: "Louisiana HB 571 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foy Gadberry"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/936e8331-b924-4f52-9f95-0f87d3e8387e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242359"
source_hash: "4ea0c02d36e5c075e42ad147dd3af3dca4983c99b5d9af392bb0790278a89893"
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 571 (2022) — BUILDING CODES: Provides relative to the State Uniform Construction Code

## Version chain

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

1. **HB571 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256679)
2. **HB571 Act 160** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286104)
3. **HB571 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259415)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1224, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259146)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1248, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259364)
6. **HB571 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280347)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#679) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#28) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## 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. 160. `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 35 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.
- **2022-03-22** 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-15** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **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.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/936e8331-b924-4f52-9f95-0f87d3e8387e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).