---
type: "Bill"
title: "CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to corporations"
description: "CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to corporations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 973"
citation: "Louisiana HB 973 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-05"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf011ae5-8330-4801-86bd-14623e3d4457"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243077"
source_hash: "ef0e5a24f79dad110b6f298c9bbe429d055d8bff3938d3c048132081aa5ded4d"
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 973 (2022) — CORPORATIONS: Provides relative to corporations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB973 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266270)
2. **HB973 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286173)
3. **HB973 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270481)
4. **HB973 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279770)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#496) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#617) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 193. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2022.
- **2022-04-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-18** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf011ae5-8330-4801-86bd-14623e3d4457`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).