---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses. (8/1/24)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 28"
citation: "Louisiana SB 28 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcf565ba-45ea-4e5e-a8ff-c386a6505d76"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245780"
source_hash: "0b77c709a153745b120b4438c56e7f7a6ac3a012e9849efd560a9a6f72519c16"
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 28 (2024) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB28 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346786)
2. **SB28 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379429)
3. **SB28 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354229)
4. **SB28 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375169)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#39) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1081) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — 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. 159. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, 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`
- **2024-02-26** 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/bcf565ba-45ea-4e5e-a8ff-c386a6505d76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).