---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to certain payments for home improvement contracting services. (8/1/23)"
description: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to certain payments for home improvement contracting services. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 190"
citation: "Louisiana SB 190 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a889490-1509-4321-b0bd-164ae56099fd"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244602"
source_hash: "dbb93c54742655c3a985a514ec7228d03711965d4892edc0ef7a2828a7f2c4d6"
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 190 (2023) — CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to certain payments for home improvement contracting services. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB190 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309962)
2. **SB190 Act 104** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331773)
3. **SB190 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316235)
4. **SB190 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317785)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #915, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315977)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #955, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316153)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1090, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317239)
8. **SB190 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327538)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#776) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#163) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 104. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably (11-0). 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. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed 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/0a889490-1509-4321-b0bd-164ae56099fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).