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+type: "Bill"
+title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
+description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020s2"
+identifier: "SB 53"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 53 (2020s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-10-05"
+last_action: "2020-11-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38840347-a29d-461a-a05e-4ba133946f1b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239594"
+source_hash: "073d4a35e639219815270eb41183963e23aee88bbeb85e173330168f1cded800"
+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 SB 53 (2020s2) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190758)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #598, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192983)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #651, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193435)
+4. **SB53 Act 57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1195054)
+5. **SB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191599)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #283, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190961)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #377, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191596)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #433, McMath, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191769)
+9. **SB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194106)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#206) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#121) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#179) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-11-05** Effective date 11/5/2020.
+- **2020-11-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 57. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-10-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-10-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-10-21** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-10-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-10-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/21/20.
+- **2020-10-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-10-20** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-10-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-10-20** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-10-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-10-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-10-15** Called from the Calendar.
+- **2020-10-13** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2020-10-12** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-10-05** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38840347-a29d-461a-a05e-4ba133946f1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+