---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for powers, duties, and functions of the State Plumbing Board. (8/1/23)"
description: "WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for powers, duties, and functions of the State Plumbing Board. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 218"
citation: "Louisiana SB 218 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glen Womack"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e87b10f-b8eb-4267-954a-fbe65a815322"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244642"
source_hash: "8e76ea17f42b3f8843a5ad91e874d287251004944cfd354271786780fc0cca73"
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 218 (2023) — WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides for powers, duties, and functions of the State Plumbing Board. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB218 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310048)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2816, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321530)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2889, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321951)
4. **SB218 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332141)
5. **SB218 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316244)
6. **SB218 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317736)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #932, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316040)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #959, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316221)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1013, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316591)
10. **SB218 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328099)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#164) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#593) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#755) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Glen Womack — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — 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. 152. `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 (10-0). 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 37 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/3e87b10f-b8eb-4267-954a-fbe65a815322`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).