---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupations and professions"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupations and professions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 954"
citation: "Louisiana HB 954 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shaun Mena"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9f1a70b-9466-4cde-82b8-fdeb8db23230"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247176"
source_hash: "521e8a3118046c1fb7b878bbbd14a8047fa9cab59ca89ed3d83e61cd850d7b9c"
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 954 (2024) — LICENSING: Provides relative to occupations and professions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB954 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361463)
2. **HB954 Act 644** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382373)
3. **HB954 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367735)
4. **HB954 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370501)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3645, Mena, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368574)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3036, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371648)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3642, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374952)
8. **HB954 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379992)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1122) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#775) — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1556) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shaun Mena — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (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. 644. `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 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
- **2024-04-23** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `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/f9f1a70b-9466-4cde-82b8-fdeb8db23230`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).