---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses"
description: "LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 716"
citation: "Louisiana HB 716 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db6b696f-4a73-4e60-b8b8-9a1d632b9635"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246567"
source_hash: "d2389c8938e035f163a0f4aad877d0802a91ad9a7117b304d54219c1d8bd0ffb"
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 716 (2024) — LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB716 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352647)
2. **HB716 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382309)
3. **HB716 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357795)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1651, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357153)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1669, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357214)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1684, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357322)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1700, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357382)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1735, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357755)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1869, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358468)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2231, Gadberry, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361455)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2832, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370759)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2881, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370961)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3751, Allain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375434)
14. **HB716 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378591)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#931) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1386) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#165) — **97–8** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2231 BY GADBERRY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#164) — **43–61** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 568. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `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`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-25** Reported with amendments (17-2). `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/db6b696f-4a73-4e60-b8b8-9a1d632b9635`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).