---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSES: Repeals a provision of licensure by endorsement for nurses"
description: "NURSES: Repeals a provision of licensure by endorsement for nurses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 319"
citation: "Louisiana HB 319 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2e0123a-3186-4bea-ba1d-a6f8a2ea50c1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244216"
source_hash: "091399ad528973c58843fc7c19089fcc393b05f14b466866fd3c57592d8c9d9c"
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 319 (2023) — NURSES: Repeals a provision of licensure by endorsement for nurses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB319 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307591)
2. **HB319 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325709)
3. **HB319 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314338)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1133, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311600)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1537, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314259)
6. **HB319 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321152)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#282) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#122) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-23** Effective date: 05/23/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 4. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2e0123a-3186-4bea-ba1d-a6f8a2ea50c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).