---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHIROPRACTORS: Provides relative to Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners"
description: "CHIROPRACTORS: Provides relative to Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 497"
citation: "Louisiana HB 497 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Stefanski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/260a95fc-b2ee-4723-8f0a-bf5d41d4ffbd"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244464"
source_hash: "d31ca8fddf22fbe0ca2c1a89c358935b925f1a0b7640d6fec601f3f92c3a0949"
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 497 (2023) — CHIROPRACTORS: Provides relative to Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners

## Version chain

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

1. **HB497 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309438)
2. **HB497 Act 280** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332442)
3. **HB497 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320889)
4. **HB497 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329476)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#686) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#533) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Stefanski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 280. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** 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`
- **2023-06-02** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (14-0). `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/260a95fc-b2ee-4723-8f0a-bf5d41d4ffbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).