---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational license and examination fee waiver and payment plan for qualified individuals"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational license and examination fee waiver and payment plan for qualified individuals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 498"
citation: "Louisiana HB 498 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d70bc7b2-00cd-4ec5-ac63-57f3237d3c95"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238214"
source_hash: "4d039074db440c8d87d1b6809c05188268896e98210f64615c0b58da2c4d6419"
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 498 (2020) — LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational license and examination fee waiver and payment plan for qualified individuals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB498 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163204)
2. **HB498 Act 275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182352)
3. **HB498 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171260)
4. **HB498 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174720)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1688, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170785)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1700, COM, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170823)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1770, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171138)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2351, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174439)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2038, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176267)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2281, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177496)
11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2148, Hensgens, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176792)
12. **HB498 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178624)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#563) — **30–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#699) — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- HB 498 BY EMERSON (#220) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/30/2021.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 275. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d70bc7b2-00cd-4ec5-ac63-57f3237d3c95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).