---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to auctioneers"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to auctioneers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "Louisiana HB 679 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dff97d5-3aac-46bb-b7cc-cf0785474e5e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246491"
source_hash: "b918e2401a92d83587e7d124495589e348d8c0ec1d1052af1824114563548a4c"
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 679 (2024) — LICENSING: Provides relative to auctioneers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB679 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352413)
2. **HB679 Act 786** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383083)
3. **HB679 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361658)
4. **HB679 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363496)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2075, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359729)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2090, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359862)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2178, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361643)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2413, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362484)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1517, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361746)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2841, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370813)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2879, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370957)
12. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3120, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372143)
13. **HB679 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379703)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#318) — **92–9** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#930) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1506) — **88–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Riser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-25** Effective date: 01/01/2025.
- **2024-06-25** Becomes Act No. 786 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 9. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dff97d5-3aac-46bb-b7cc-cf0785474e5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).