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Bill	COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the acceptance of digital identification (Item #28)	COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the acceptance of digital identification (Item #28)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	HB 54	Louisiana HB 54 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Edward Ted James	14	32	4	2020-09-30	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d1540a0f-6fde-42ca-9e6a-f63359e8d7c8	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239526	36fce29f76fc7b42e870c3fd297eaf76c65314d98f43497f6f16f5c1dec6f893	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 54 (2020s2) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to the acceptance of digital identification (Item #28)

Version chain

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

1. HB54 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #700, House Proposed, Senate Proposed (committee substitute) — source
3. HB54 Act 21 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB54 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB54 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #267, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #272, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #296, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #346, James, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #556, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #564, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #631, Abraham, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #691, Peacock, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB54 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#139) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#247) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#193) — 87–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward Ted James — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-28 Effective date: 12/22/2020.
• 2020-10-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 21. executive-signature
• 2020-10-23 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-23 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-22 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-22 Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2020-10-22 Notice Senate discharged from the Conference Committee.
• 2020-10-22 Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
• 2020-10-22 Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
• 2020-10-22 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-22 Reconsidered.
• 2020-10-22 Discharged from Conference Committee.
• 2020-10-22 Conference committee report received.
• 2020-10-22 Conference Committee report received.
• 2020-10-21 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2020-10-21 Senate conference committee members appointed: Johns, Ward, and Peacock.
• 2020-10-21 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2020-10-21 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2020-10-21 House conferees appointed: James, Davis, and Stefanski.
• 2020-10-20 Read by title, roll called, yeas 87, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2020-10-20 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-20 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2020-10-19 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-10-14 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-07 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. referral-committee
• 2020-10-06 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-05 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/06/20.
• 2020-10-05 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-05 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-05 Reported with amendments (16-0).
• 2020-09-30 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1540a0f-6fde-42ca-9e6a-f63359e8d7c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).