---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Board of Massage Therapy"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Board of Massage Therapy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 531"
citation: "Louisiana HB 531 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/346f2611-ef92-43e3-a432-115c65de6cd6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240493"
source_hash: "d39a5d4afa98e36ba32c7129e982d311c97165f2c06ba33874aa384f00918dfc"
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 531 (2021) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Board of Massage Therapy

## Version chain

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

1. **HB531 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211820)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4014, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233620)
3. **HB531 Act 324** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235640)
4. **HB531 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218775)
5. **HB531 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221673)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1761, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218151)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1839, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218746)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2052, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219720)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2373, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221336)
10. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1316, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218859)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2992, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229968)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3006, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230261)
13. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2849, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229511)
14. **HB531 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234539)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#1114) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1125) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1230) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#869) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 06/14/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 324. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0. Having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-10** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee report received.
- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Luneau, Fred Mills, and McMath.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-08** House conferees appointed: Pressly, Bagley, and Emerson.
- **2021-06-08** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, the House refused to concur in the amendments proposed by the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/346f2611-ef92-43e3-a432-115c65de6cd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).