republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-705.md

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Bill	UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)	UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 705	Louisiana HB 705 (2021)	bill		enacted	Neil Riser	12	28	7	2021-05-10	2021-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240986	d28603947502870548a0debf29bb6f6b6e5018255a0f43810668b8ca9c3ac35b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 705 (2021) — UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to the misclassification of employees and a criteria for the classification of employees (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB705 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #3990, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. HB705 Act 455 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB705 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #3066, Ivey, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #2671, L&IR, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #3083, L&IR, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #3284, Luneau, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Amendment, #3396, Reese, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #3397, Luneau, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3238, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB705 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#913) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1237) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• ADOPT (#1111) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#915) — 12–0 (fail) · upper
• AMENDMENT # 3066 BY IVEY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#477) — 7–85 (fail) · lower
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1144) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Neil Riser — primary (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-23 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 455. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-10 Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
• 2021-06-10 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-10 Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
• 2021-06-10 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2021-06-10 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2021-06-10 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2021-06-10 Rules suspended.
• 2021-06-10 Conference Committee report received.
• 2021-06-09 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2021-06-09 Senate conference committee members appointed: Luneau, Reese, and Morris.
• 2021-06-09 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2021-06-09 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2021-06-08 House conferees appointed: Riser, Carpenter, and Beaullieu.
• 2021-06-08 Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
• 2021-06-07 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-07 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-06-03 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-02 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-19 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. referral-committee
• 2021-05-18 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-17 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2021.
• 2021-05-11 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-10 Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 151 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (8-0).

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).