---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to the Occupational Licensing Review Commission"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to the Occupational Licensing Review Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Louisiana HB 81 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62a4aaff-3796-4800-9215-f4254a60b7fd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241609"
source_hash: "cfac8d61cfe2bfcd76d8ae115fccb2ab77b259eadf015648ff2ce8f44daea12d"
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 81 (2022) — LICENSING: Provides relative to the Occupational Licensing Review Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB81 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247680)
2. **HB81 Act 119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286045)
3. **HB81 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263217)
4. **HB81 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279901)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#186) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#615) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 119. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/06/2022.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-29** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
- **2022-02-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62a4aaff-3796-4800-9215-f4254a60b7fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).