---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification requirements. (gov sig)"
description: "TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification requirements. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 377"
citation: "Louisiana SB 377 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barrow Peacock"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c169442c-e6fd-4e02-9e95-4d929c36be24"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242670"
source_hash: "37cc439414f9ccd851e26f34988a15e376cda9ae750d9bfb1b2094a1db997292"
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 377 (2022) — TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification requirements. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB377 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258094)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2842, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276359)
3. **SB377 Act 244** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286570)
4. **SB377 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1272254)
5. **SB377 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275002)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2108, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270959)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2206, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271598)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2529, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1273679)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2322, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1272287)
10. **SB377 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281910)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#435) — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#966) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#743) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#434) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barrow Peacock — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 5/31/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 244. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-19** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** Rules suspended.
- **2022-05-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-05-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-26** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c169442c-e6fd-4e02-9e95-4d929c36be24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).