---
type: "Bill"
title: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes the Work-Based Learning Tax Credit for employment of apprentices, interns, and youth workers (EN -$1,136,500 GF RV See Note)"
description: "TAX CREDITS: Establishes the Work-Based Learning Tax Credit for employment of apprentices, interns, and youth workers (EN -$1,136,500 GF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 533"
citation: "Louisiana HB 533 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kim Carver"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d173f31-293b-4e6a-9276-df511c8ea2f4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248579"
source_hash: "24af78d141b895f7174c3f597ed526a34b8d3930e296d04598ed2a4e7c9ec1fb"
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 533 (2025) — TAX CREDITS: Establishes the Work-Based Learning Tax Credit for employment of apprentices, interns, and youth workers (EN -$1,136,500 GF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB533 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404239)
2. **HB533 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425997)
3. **HB533 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411381)
4. **HB533 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416097)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1736, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408721)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2013, W&M, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410160)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2207, W&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411346)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2952, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415062)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #3113, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416059)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2312, R&F, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418584)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2557, R&F, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420035)
12. **HB533 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424292)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **91–4** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#786) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1136) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kim Carver — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 01/01/2026.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 376. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-06-03** Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
- **2025-06-02** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported with amendments (21-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-05-05** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d173f31-293b-4e6a-9276-df511c8ea2f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).