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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Revises requirements for certification, hiring, and dismissal of teachers and other school employees with respect to criminal history"
+description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Revises requirements for certification, hiring, and dismissal of teachers and other school employees with respect to criminal history"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 618"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 618 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lance Harris"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-05-08"
+last_action: "2019-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e54ebdd-144f-4126-8144-3a629afb4099"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236920"
+source_hash: "5085b8bd16aaf6b0e1e30bb49d314bc5b95414744d84521eb2aeedabb367c712"
+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 618 (2019) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Revises requirements for certification, hiring, and dismissal of teachers and other school employees with respect to criminal history
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB618 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132120)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #3736, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142656)
+3. **HB618 Act 387** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144622)
+4. **HB618 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132260)
+5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3144, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140942)
+6. **HB618 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143569)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ADOPT (#1035) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1049) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#466) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#903) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#999) — **84–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lance Harris — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 387. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-06-06** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
+- **2019-06-06** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2019-06-06** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-06-06** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2019-06-06** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2019-06-05** Senate conference committee members appointed: Morrish, Mizell, and White.
+- **2019-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2019-06-05** House conferees appointed: Lance Harris, Nancy Landry, and Steve Carter.
+- **2019-06-05** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2019-06-05** Read by title, roll called, yeas 84, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
+- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/05/19.
+- **2019-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2019-06-03** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
+- **2019-05-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-08** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 167 reported by the Committee on Education (13-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e54ebdd-144f-4126-8144-3a629afb4099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+