---
type: "Bill"
title: "AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Drone Advisory Committee"
description: "AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Drone Advisory Committee"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 407"
citation: "Louisiana HB 407 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c5834c5-c69b-4c61-a980-9d6b351fe1f8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244330"
source_hash: "4371cb43970cfce74aa2b11f79e3a59199b9abdf6aa1f2ee365d5961051789f2"
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 407 (2023) — AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Provides relative to the Louisiana Drone Advisory Committee

## Version chain

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

1. **HB407 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308576)
2. **HB407 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332139)
3. **HB407 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310850)
4. **HB407 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312421)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #448, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311055)
6. **HB407 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327672)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#576) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#15) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-07** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 169. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **2023-04-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `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/4c5834c5-c69b-4c61-a980-9d6b351fe1f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).