---
type: "Bill"
title: "REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission"
description: "REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 256"
citation: "Louisiana HB 256 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon McMakin"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/428f47ca-5eff-464a-8fe6-42da098c317a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248187"
source_hash: "61df67ed20f05a2d180ffeef7a112bf1023e96cdbf9142b0e02ae52e01cbf4ff"
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 256 (2025) — REAL ESTATE/COMMISSION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB256 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401323)
2. **HB256 Act 256** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425565)
3. **HB256 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413537)
4. **HB256 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416169)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2360, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413167)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2620, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413528)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3011, Hebert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415436)
8. **HB256 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423134)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#772) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#464) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dixon McMakin — primary (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 256. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Notice given.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
- **2025-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-12** Reported with amendments (18-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/428f47ca-5eff-464a-8fe6-42da098c317a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).