---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to home inspectors"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to home inspectors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 74"
citation: "Louisiana HB 74 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b89ac369-9f6e-41b5-a23e-f560037fec54"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243913"
source_hash: "62d2ee0b814935deb74c21c10b6e3069b0fcb58c36012afbf040d9f29cff6015"
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 74 (2023) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to home inspectors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB74 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302229)
2. **HB74 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332493)
3. **HB74 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311346)
4. **HB74 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313771)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1053, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311095)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1069, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311247)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #970, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310470)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1167, Thomas, Polly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311784)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1259, Crews, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312365)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #1260, Crews, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312385)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #1457, Thomas, Polly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313676)
12. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #475, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311429)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1469, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319795)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1575, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320780)
15. **HB74 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330744)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#712) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1022) — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#51) — **80–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Polly Thomas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 338. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** 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 93, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-19** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-19** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2023.
- **2023-04-17** Notice given.
- **2023-04-17** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **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`
- **2023-03-10** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/10/2023.
- **2023-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b89ac369-9f6e-41b5-a23e-f560037fec54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).