---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Economic Development"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Economic Development"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Louisiana HB 120 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-22"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c826bfc-e5ab-4797-913b-b6e61db2002a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241679"
source_hash: "571af889b6d15dd5f13755cd1d035bb6fa72efd6c216c459bd1cf5e322ad5a9e"
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 120 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Economic Development

## Version chain

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

1. **HB120 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1249331)
2. **HB120 Act 12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280881)
3. **HB120 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259410)
4. **HB120 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275854)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#451) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#20) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-13** Effective date: 06/30/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 12. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-03** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/2022.
- **2022-03-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-15** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c826bfc-e5ab-4797-913b-b6e61db2002a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).