republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-638.md

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Bill	PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses	PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 638	Louisiana HB 638 (2024)	bill		enacted	Nicholas Muscarello	4	19	2	2024-03-01	2024-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/73f48c52-b4c2-4cd9-bc90-e788f4c8d805	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246444	30e7f2f9db313cd4b9706ed3ef3dc37164e81f9067dc385b4aa285aa36f27ce2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 638 (2024) — PRIVATE SECURITY: Provides relative to entities practicing as licensed private security businesses

Version chain

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

1. HB638 Original (filed) — source
2. HB638 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB638 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB638 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#1099) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#611) — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-03 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-03 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 438. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-28 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-24 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-24 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-22 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-13 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-08 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-23 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-18 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-16 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
• 2024-04-16 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-15 Reported favorably (15-0). 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/73f48c52-b4c2-4cd9-bc90-e788f4c8d805. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).