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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals"
+description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 197"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 197 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-24"
+last_action: "2021-06-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7746b0f0-55b2-46a2-a1a4-4f2a89a2643f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240031"
+source_hash: "cb3300dcfe27cceebdd25522b2bb3f6da7b656d5d7139dd0fa9a614a7062b771"
+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 197 (2021) — LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB197 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206409)
+2. **HB197 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235474)
+3. **HB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220778)
+4. **HB197 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223553)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2025, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219664)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2026, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219665)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2175, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220656)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #2433, Owen, Charles, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221864)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2946, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229867)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3173, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230840)
+11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3257, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231170)
+12. **HB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233456)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1096) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#808) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles Owen — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
+- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
+- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
+- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7746b0f0-55b2-46a2-a1a4-4f2a89a2643f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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