---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to fees for private contract security companies (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to fees for private contract security companies (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 157"
citation: "Louisiana HB 157 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb3535ef-3057-4a66-b519-81cbbce0a5f3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248067"
source_hash: "75749f4ece190c2f6f433827a11f3f74cd9241ecbf39a9a2efe38570dc593324"
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 157 (2025) — PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to fees for private contract security companies (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB157 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400236)
2. **HB157 Act 309** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425630)
3. **HB157 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408881)
4. **HB157 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411933)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2311, Muscarello, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411686)
6. **HB157 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419675)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#217) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-16** Becomes Act No. 309 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb3535ef-3057-4a66-b519-81cbbce0a5f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).