---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTRACTORS/CONSTRUCTION: Provides relevant updates and technical corrections to statutes relative to contractors"
description: "CONTRACTORS/CONSTRUCTION: Provides relevant updates and technical corrections to statutes relative to contractors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Louisiana HB 273 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Carmody"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43d8205b-aac5-4ede-901a-676418cf3788"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236035"
source_hash: "757e8ca61bc09854d1d5d7be6528121fc8253f40581ffc865ae66e3c8dd54881"
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 273 (2019) — CONTRACTORS/CONSTRUCTION: Provides relevant updates and technical corrections to statutes relative to contractors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB273 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120239)
2. **HB273 Act 371** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144522)
3. **HB273 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124963)
4. **HB273 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126763)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1059, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124066)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1162, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124865)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #707, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125207)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1944, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134359)
9. **HB273 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141418)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#617) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#40) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#803) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas Carmody — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 371. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/19.
- **2019-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments (16-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43d8205b-aac5-4ede-901a-676418cf3788`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).