---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification"
description: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 191"
citation: "Louisiana HB 191 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55c021aa-9f2d-4274-b9dc-c909f97706ec"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244049"
source_hash: "f0396cfaf1c5281bb15f3e4e5a01966f15a015aa09c5a4563d54c54d3fdbd0c1"
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 191 (2023) — TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to teacher certification

## Version chain

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

1. **HB191 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305126)
2. **HB191 Act 63** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331233)
3. **HB191 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313990)
4. **HB191 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325806)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#423) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 63. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-25** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-24** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55c021aa-9f2d-4274-b9dc-c909f97706ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).