---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/24)"
description: "CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 392"
citation: "Louisiana SB 392 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-18"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb8757f2-58c2-45ee-9c3d-2c797390383f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246784"
source_hash: "d2fdd23bc2c54cc9e6618a54a304e157963be5cb7c8c1fca738a10a5696ff145"
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 392 (2024) — CONTRACTORS: Provides relative to the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB392 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355219)
2. **SB392 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379391)
3. **SB392 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358974)
4. **SB392 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364096)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1154, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357688)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1334, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358895)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1386, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359408)
8. **SB392 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375127)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#243) — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1094) — **88–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — 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. 178. `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 88, nays 8. 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 (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb8757f2-58c2-45ee-9c3d-2c797390383f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).