---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)"
description: "SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Louisiana SB 23 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-28"
last_action: "2020-10-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8a215a9-43ed-42c5-9c66-2e8768d8b82d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239479"
source_hash: "26d83c967d0672904fbba302440e8cd2f68951be404bfbc676ac02c7d4c50fa7"
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 SB 23 (2020s2) — SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB23 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1189320)
2. **SB23 Act 34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194817)
3. **SB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191398)
4. **SB23 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191926)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #459, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191889)
6. **SB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193171)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#56) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#155) — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-28** Effective date 10/28/2020.
- **2020-10-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 34. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-21** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-21** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-20** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-19** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-10-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/15/20.
- **2020-10-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-14** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-10-14** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-07** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-09-28** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8a215a9-43ed-42c5-9c66-2e8768d8b82d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).