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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "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)"
description: "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)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 705"
citation: "Louisiana HB 705 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-05-10"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240986"
source_hash: "d28603947502870548a0debf29bb6f6b6e5018255a0f43810668b8ca9c3ac35b"
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 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](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222184)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3990, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233303)
3. **HB705 Act 455** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236017)
4. **HB705 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222527)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3066, Ivey, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225344)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2671, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229238)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3083, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230569)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3284, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231238)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3396, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231865)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3397, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231867)
11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3238, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231135)
12. **HB705 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234608)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0729b809-976a-4118-b6c6-b01d5a2a2817`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).