republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-498.md

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Bill	LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational license and examination fee waiver and payment plan for qualified individuals	LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational license and examination fee waiver and payment plan for qualified individuals	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 498	Louisiana HB 498 (2020)	bill		enacted	Julie Emerson	12	20	3	2020-02-28	2020-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/d70bc7b2-00cd-4ec5-ac63-57f3237d3c95	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238214	4d039074db440c8d87d1b6809c05188268896e98210f64615c0b58da2c4d6419	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. HB498 Act 275 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB498 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB498 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1688, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1700, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1770, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2351, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2038, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #2281, Luneau, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2148, Hensgens, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB498 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/d70bc7b2-00cd-4ec5-ac63-57f3237d3c95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).