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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists"
+description: "ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 421"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 421 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Walt Leger, III"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9386237a-8446-4a40-bbba-7973922b369b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233847"
+source_hash: "c563b3ee08bc4ddacefdb71c9adf9db03b2c725726007afd58a2e0bf58826835"
+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 421 (2018) — ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB421 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071663)
+2. **HB421 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096985)
+3. **HB421 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077635)
+4. **HB421 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080492)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1453, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076837)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1544, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077598)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #1730, Leger, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078878)
+8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1395, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077957)
+9. **HB421 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090412)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#176) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Walt Leger, III — primary (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 93. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-04-26** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-04-25** 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`
+- **2018-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-18** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
+- **2018-03-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-21** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9386237a-8446-4a40-bbba-7973922b369b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+