---
type: "Bill"
title: "ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists"
description: "ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Louisiana HB 421 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walt Leger, III"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9386237a-8446-4a40-bbba-7973922b369b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233847"
source_hash: "c563b3ee08bc4ddacefdb71c9adf9db03b2c725726007afd58a2e0bf58826835"
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 421 (2018) — ACUPUNCTURISTS: Provides for the licensing of acupuncturists

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB421 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071663)
2. **HB421 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096985)
3. **HB421 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077635)
4. **HB421 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080492)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1453, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076837)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1544, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077598)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1730, Leger, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078878)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1395, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077957)
9. **HB421 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1090412)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#176) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Walt Leger, III — primary (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 93. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-26** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-26** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-18** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9386237a-8446-4a40-bbba-7973922b369b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).