---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses"
description: "PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 638"
citation: "Louisiana HB 638 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73f48c52-b4c2-4cd9-bc90-e788f4c8d805"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246444"
source_hash: "30e7f2f9db313cd4b9706ed3ef3dc37164e81f9067dc385b4aa285aa36f27ce2"
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 638 (2024) — PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB638 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352205)
2. **HB638 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381917)
3. **HB638 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365252)
4. **HB638 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377975)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1099) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#611) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 438. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73f48c52-b4c2-4cd9-bc90-e788f4c8d805`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).