republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/hb-701.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	COMMERCE: Provides for the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses (EN +$148,869 SG EX See Note)	COMMERCE: Provides for the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses (EN +$148,869 SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	HB 701	Louisiana HB 701 (2020)	bill		enacted	Mark Wright	9	26	3	2020-02-28	2020-06-13	openstates	ocd-bill/bfe399ee-736a-405d-9dc3-f5d6007ebbd2	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238483	751270dd8a0d050b618ff0da113bb476cdcfb1f3ffaf0d8ccbff5b72e80b657c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 701 (2020) — COMMERCE: Provides for the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses (EN +$148,869 SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB701 Original (filed) — source
2. HB701 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB701 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB701 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #2394, Wright, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1294, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1957, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #2296, Henry, Cameron, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB701 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#590) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 701 BY WRIGHT (#234) — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#723) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Wright — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-13 Effective date: 08/01/2020.
• 2020-06-13 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 341. 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 96, nays 0, 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 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-05-28 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-05-27 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2020-05-27 Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
• 2020-05-27 Rules suspended.
• 2020-05-27 Reported with amendments.
• 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 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-05-20 Called from the calendar.
• 2020-05-20 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2020-05-18 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
• 2020-05-15 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-05-13 Reported favorably (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/bfe399ee-736a-405d-9dc3-f5d6007ebbd2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).