---
type: "Bill"
title: "SURVEYORS: Updates standards for surveying and mapping"
description: "SURVEYORS: Updates standards for surveying and mapping"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 642"
citation: "Louisiana HB 642 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Orgeron"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd6ce006-32f4-4665-9090-e770cd435e59"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246448"
source_hash: "6f1699aa6414c27562de208ee208f4b0f12fb4753e1ab5da81293473e405f8b4"
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 642 (2024) — SURVEYORS: Updates standards for surveying and mapping

## Version chain

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

1. **HB642 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352222)
2. **HB642 Act 626** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382355)
3. **HB642 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364703)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2711, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370163)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2777, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370317)
6. **HB642 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379613)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#588) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#897) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1505) — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joseph Orgeron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 626. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** 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`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2024.
- **2024-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Reported favorably (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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/bd6ce006-32f4-4665-9090-e770cd435e59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).