---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 185"
citation: "Louisiana SB 185 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78780ba7-244e-44d8-adb6-34b5e3d37aef"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244597"
source_hash: "e729f110c354f38ea1ae55921d5ae350335a30fccb3d00424b2a2f9a5de70204"
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 SB 185 (2023) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of virtual businesses. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB185 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309942)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2975, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331275)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3241, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324012)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3248, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324144)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3307, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324665)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3551, Davis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325852)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #4107, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330118)
8. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2081, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324790)
9. **SB185 Act 331** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332549)
10. **SB185 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316262)
11. **SB185 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319859)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #679, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313501)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #954, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316152)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1206, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318039)
15. **SB185 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332055)

## Votes

- REJECT (#945) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#215) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1214) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1002) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1001) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date 6/13/2023.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 331. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Davis, Pressly, and Wright.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Reese, Henry, and Harris.
- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Notice given.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-24** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-22** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78780ba7-244e-44d8-adb6-34b5e3d37aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).