---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to transfer of ownership of movable property"
description: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to transfer of ownership of movable property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Louisiana HB 176 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2aa9a3de-78c5-45ce-913a-696a4990b0f4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244034"
source_hash: "1d07358d3ff5993e86edb25ca040730e8bbae7185c1307b071498b8c01c022f4"
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 176 (2023) — PROPERTY: Provides relative to transfer of ownership of movable property

## Version chain

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

1. **HB176 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305057)
2. **HB176 Act 401** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332739)
3. **HB176 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322501)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2798, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321423)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2926, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322153)
6. **HB176 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329186)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#620) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#582) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 401. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Reported with amendments (12-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2aa9a3de-78c5-45ce-913a-696a4990b0f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).