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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TEACHERS: Authorizes principals to notify the parents of any child assigned to the classroom of an uncertified teacher, teacher with a non-standard certificate, or teacher authorized to teach without certification"
+description: "TEACHERS: Authorizes principals to notify the parents of any child assigned to the classroom of an uncertified teacher, teacher with a non-standard certificate, or teacher authorized to teach without certification"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 601"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 601 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Carpenter"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89415c63-fddf-42a5-b095-fa36748a073c"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246407"
+source_hash: "cdbe2fcdaa2447a670b762c7707f14f022d788056a62a3c2510a867fc83eb61c"
+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 601 (2024) — TEACHERS: Authorizes principals to notify the parents of any child assigned to the classroom of an uncertified teacher, teacher with a non-standard certificate, or teacher authorized to teach without certification
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB601 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352164)
+2. **HB601 Act 116** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378137)
+3. **HB601 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365981)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3065, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365750)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3103, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365922)
+6. **HB601 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374477)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#649) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#669) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Carpenter — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 116. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-01** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2024.
+- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89415c63-fddf-42a5-b095-fa36748a073c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+