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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification"
+description: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 191"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 191 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-24"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55c021aa-9f2d-4274-b9dc-c909f97706ec"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244049"
+source_hash: "f0396cfaf1c5281bb15f3e4e5a01966f15a015aa09c5a4563d54c54d3fdbd0c1"
+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 191 (2023) — TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB191 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305126)
+2. **HB191 Act 63** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331233)
+3. **HB191 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313990)
+4. **HB191 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325806)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#423) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 63. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
+- **2023-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-20** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
+- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55c021aa-9f2d-4274-b9dc-c909f97706ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+