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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ADMINISTRATION: Provides relative to the creation of digitized credentials (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "ADMINISTRATION: Provides relative to the creation of digitized credentials (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 378"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 378 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-29"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a2e205f-3e66-47a3-bf17-9495f0328ad1"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236194"
+source_hash: "5d30e1ae3723b17213c44d3bfc2622419e93f5c571776c404ae4eb8a79d42ea6"
+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 378 (2019) — ADMINISTRATION: Provides relative to the creation of digitized credentials (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB378 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121376)
+2. **HB378 Act 220** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144082)
+3. **HB378 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128266)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2101, FNCE, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135355)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2530, Cortez, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137820)
+6. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2276, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136607)
+7. **HB378 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140298)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#497) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#765) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#217) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Ted James — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Andy Anders — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
+- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Stokes — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Reid Falconer — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Pugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 220. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
+- **2019-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/19.
+- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-21** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/19.
+- **2019-04-30** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-29** Reported favorably (18-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a2e205f-3e66-47a3-bf17-9495f0328ad1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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