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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires foundational numeracy skills standards as a component of teacher education programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires foundational numeracy skills standards as a component of teacher education programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 326"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 326 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richard Nelson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-29"
+last_action: "2023-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/156a7b85-a7c0-403c-bf13-803d48354cfe"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244223"
+source_hash: "2eb8c5072a9465cce30194b484d8f1632251fa93fd1c738fa16623166c05547a"
+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 326 (2023) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Requires foundational numeracy skills standards as a component of teacher education programs (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB326 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307628)
+2. **HB326 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332504)
+3. **HB326 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317958)
+4. **HB326 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329693)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#354) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#793) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richard Nelson — primary (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 347. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** 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`
+- **2023-05-31** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2023.
+- **2023-05-03** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/156a7b85-a7c0-403c-bf13-803d48354cfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+