---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME: Provides relative to residential contractor fraud (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "CRIME: Provides relative to residential contractor fraud (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 816"
citation: "Louisiana HB 816 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilford Carter , Sr."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc1858e6-83e4-4be1-83c1-517f851eadf3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246961"
source_hash: "caa0efb31e4def606812cb46adc5729a6a20c1fdf5c7715a835e067201d34494"
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 816 (2024) — CRIME: Provides relative to residential contractor fraud (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB816 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360129)
2. **HB816 Act 728** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382754)
3. **HB816 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363905)
4. **HB816 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366281)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3157, Carter, Wilford, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366096)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3494, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374105)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3495, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374110)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #3783, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375716)
9. **HB816 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380107)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1005) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#534) — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1531) — **86–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilford Carter , Sr. — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 728. `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 86, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc1858e6-83e4-4be1-83c1-517f851eadf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).