---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors"
description: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 602"
citation: "Louisiana HB 602 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/897d87ba-1736-49ee-bdd1-45aec524f24c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242410"
source_hash: "f119ed3382362f12d57d7035faca3b04ea273e74f1e1d436b36194fd09238a37"
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 602 (2022) — CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB602 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256971)
2. **HB602 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286177)
3. **HB602 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259498)
4. **HB602 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262081)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1218, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259108)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1261, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259408)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1435, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260723)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #661, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259556)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2714, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275434)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2791, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275961)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3024, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277808)
12. **HB602 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281362)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#554) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1006) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#65) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 195. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International 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 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/23/2022.
- **2022-03-21** Notice given.
- **2022-03-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/897d87ba-1736-49ee-bdd1-45aec524f24c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).