---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to phlebotomists"
description: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to phlebotomists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Louisiana HB 459 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Travis Johnson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21004bc6-4eb8-452a-9a3d-d5824c2f80c9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244415"
source_hash: "c8b1af5b50ead1ef5a15f7e1a669dd8eead2db9cecfa9d8ab647d6ac83598865"
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 459 (2023) — HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to phlebotomists

## Version chain

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

1. **HB459 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309093)
2. **HB459 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332528)
3. **HB459 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315426)
4. **HB459 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318853)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2247, Johnson, Travis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318208)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1837, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323016)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1857, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323071)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2245, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326099)
9. **HB459 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328373)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#210) — **98–3** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#795) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#471) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Travis Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 369. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-17** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2023.
- **2023-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably (12-0). `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.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21004bc6-4eb8-452a-9a3d-d5824c2f80c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).