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type: "Bill"
title: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
description: "ATTORNEY GENERAL: Creates an occupational licensing board review program within the office of the attorney general (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 398"
citation: "Louisiana HB 398 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240310"
source_hash: "e6c82d980ed68ba299f91d55d92126f012621f7e1ff89da4dd0338413b0b6f84"
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 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](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210707)
2. **HB398 Act 399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235797)
3. **HB398 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224584)
4. **HB398 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228734)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1028, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212677)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2496, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224741)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3548, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228707)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2113, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224954)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2991, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229971)
10. **HB398 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233000)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#924) — **344** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#756) — **6724** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11d5f063-f3c1-4eb4-9bbd-7b976611201c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).