---
type: "Bill"
title: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office"
description: "SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 395"
citation: "Louisiana HB 395 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6d9c982-4b54-4557-a0fa-3a9f98bb179b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244318"
source_hash: "7a169521f46ced3813dc6bc4f8e15da6416a24164e163d89c02c677a3aeaaffc"
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 395 (2023) — SECRETARY OF STATE: Provides relative to filings with the secretary of state's office

## Version chain

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

1. **HB395 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308528)
2. **HB395 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328149)
3. **HB395 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311352)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1045, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311060)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1089, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311254)
6. **HB395 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325316)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#31) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#402) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-23** 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`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2023.
- **2023-04-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6d9c982-4b54-4557-a0fa-3a9f98bb179b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).