---
type: "Bill"
title: "INTERIOR DESIGNERS: Provides relative to board members and qualifications of the State Board of Examiners of Interior Designers. (8/1/24)"
description: "INTERIOR DESIGNERS: Provides relative to board members and qualifications of the State Board of Examiners of Interior Designers. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "Louisiana SB 257 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9164c05-21e7-4b85-9370-222c246d1c13"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246505"
source_hash: "a2237a1be70f0e033a4ce4dfb798cc16397da4ca140c158dfbfbf35373504bb5"
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 257 (2024) — INTERIOR DESIGNERS: Provides relative to board members and qualifications of the State Board of Examiners of Interior Designers. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB257 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352487)
2. **SB257 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379405)
3. **SB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354188)
4. **SB257 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356435)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #790, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354468)
6. **SB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374459)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#64) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1033) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 169. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-20** 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`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** 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`
- **2024-03-01** 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/b9164c05-21e7-4b85-9370-222c246d1c13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).