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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Provides relative to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact (EN +$3,700 SG RV See Note)"
+description: "DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Provides relative to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact (EN +$3,700 SG RV See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 543"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 543 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8654c096-127b-4e32-8c29-5e64600e94ea"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248589"
+source_hash: "8e261c65bdc3a56d8844d36e482d97d884624aac6d14a9af30e20d91b54b13fe"
+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 543 (2025) — DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Provides relative to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact (EN +$3,700 SG RV See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB543 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404249)
+2. **HB543 Act 312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425634)
+3. **HB543 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406059)
+4. **HB543 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412666)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1189, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405514)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1291, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405996)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #2346, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411849)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #2417, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412549)
+9. **HB543 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420746)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#378) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#608) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-16** Becomes Act No. 312 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
+- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
+- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments (15-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8654c096-127b-4e32-8c29-5e64600e94ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+