---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Increases penalties for violations relative to the purchase of junk, used or secondhand property or scrap metal. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Increases penalties for violations relative to the purchase of junk, used or secondhand property or scrap metal. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 182"
citation: "Louisiana SB 182 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9720768-fd7b-419d-9ea2-814722f45ffb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244578"
source_hash: "a28e4de820ebc553dc4814701a1ab839f4aed54fdac18d3c58ed5ff436645d60"
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 SB 182 (2023) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Increases penalties for violations relative to the purchase of junk, used or secondhand property or scrap metal. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB182 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309888)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2758, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321270)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2886, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321945)
4. **SB182 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332138)
5. **SB182 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316284)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #878, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315777)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #957, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316213)
8. **SB182 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328085)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#161) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#592) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#754) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-15** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-01** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9720768-fd7b-419d-9ea2-814722f45ffb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).