republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-716.md

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Bill	LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses	LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 716	Louisiana HB 716 (2024)	bill		enacted	Charles Owen	14	22	4	2024-03-01	2024-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/db6b696f-4a73-4e60-b8b8-9a1d632b9635	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246567	d2389c8938e035f163a0f4aad877d0802a91ad9a7117b304d54219c1d8bd0ffb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 716 (2024) — LICENSING: Provides for universal recognition of occupational licenses

Version chain

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

1. HB716 Original (filed) — source
2. HB716 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB716 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1651, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1669, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1684, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1700, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #1735, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. House Floor Amendment, #1869, Owen, Charles, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #2231, Gadberry, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2832, COM, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Committee Amendment, #2881, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. Senate Floor Amendment, #3751, Allain, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
14. HB716 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#931) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1386) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#165) — 97–8 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2231 BY GADBERRY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#164) — 43–61 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Charles Owen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 568. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-31 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-28 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-23 Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-23 Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
• 2024-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/23/2024.
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-07 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-06 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-01 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-02 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-03-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
• 2024-03-26 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-03-25 Reported with amendments (17-2). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db6b696f-4a73-4e60-b8b8-9a1d632b9635. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).