republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-398.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	ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 398	Louisiana HB 398 (2021)	bill		enacted	Rhonda Butler	10	26	2	2021-04-01	2021-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240310	e6c82d980ed68ba299f91d55d92126f012621f7e1ff89da4dd0338413b0b6f84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 398 (2021) — ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB398 Original (filed) — source
2. HB398 Act 399 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB398 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB398 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1028, JUD, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2496, JUD, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3548, Butler, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2113, Horton, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2991, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. HB398 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#924) — 34–4 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — 67–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-16 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-16 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 399. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2021-06-07 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-06-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-06 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-06-01 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2021-05-27 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. referral-committee
• 2021-05-26 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-26 Called from the calendar.
• 2021-05-26 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2021-05-24 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
• 2021-05-24 Notice given.
• 2021-05-24 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2021-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2021.
• 2021-05-19 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-19 Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-05-17 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-05-13 Reported with amendments (7-2-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
• 2021-04-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2021-04-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).