---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to rulemaking and oversight pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act"
description: "ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to rulemaking and oversight pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 221"
citation: "Louisiana HB 221 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31416aa4-abd7-4a96-8a6b-53bcbb23d547"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244086"
source_hash: "8091d5f282e5913a396a94ab3aa69146c920ba29f4d3b3eec7b02b13335a83c6"
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 221 (2023) — ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to rulemaking and oversight pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act

## Version chain

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

1. **HB221 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305772)
2. **HB221 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333442)
3. **HB221 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323430)
4. **HB221 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325229)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2849, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321775)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3097, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323025)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #3134, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323362)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3448, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325018)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2541, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327755)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2542, S&G, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327763)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2561, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327840)
12. **HB221 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330943)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#598) — **67–28** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1063) — **83–14** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#815) — **24–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Wright — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Effective date: 01/08/2024.
- **2023-06-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 442. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 14, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 24 yeas and 13 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments (7-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31416aa4-abd7-4a96-8a6b-53bcbb23d547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).