---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020s2"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Louisiana SB 53 (2020s2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-10-05"
last_action: "2020-11-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38840347-a29d-461a-a05e-4ba133946f1b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239594"
source_hash: "073d4a35e639219815270eb41183963e23aee88bbeb85e173330168f1cded800"
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 53 (2020s2) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides for the rehiring of nonlicensed persons by certain health care providers required to temporarily close during a public health emergency. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190758)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #598, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1192983)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #651, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1193435)
4. **SB53 Act 57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1195054)
5. **SB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191599)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #283, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1190961)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #377, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191596)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #433, McMath, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1191769)
9. **SB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1194106)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#206) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#121) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#179) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-11-05** Effective date 11/5/2020.
- **2020-11-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 57. `executive-signature`
- **2020-10-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-10-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-10-22** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-10-21** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-10-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-10-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 10/21/20.
- **2020-10-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-10-20** Rules suspended.
- **2020-10-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-10-20** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-10-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-10-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-10-15** Called from the Calendar.
- **2020-10-13** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2020-10-12** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-10-05** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38840347-a29d-461a-a05e-4ba133946f1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).