---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Authorizes the University of Louisiana System to establish tuition and fees for a Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (EN +$576,000 SG RV See Note)"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION: Authorizes the University of Louisiana System to establish tuition and fees for a Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (EN +$576,000 SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 67"
citation: "Louisiana HB 67 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adrian Fisher"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-06"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e52906c6-72d2-4f4a-aedd-1a08218a39c7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243902"
source_hash: "26f1ffd6434d02276e3b8d93008dc29d1238e818f4a4ea321873b75c895692a9"
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 67 (2023) — HIGHER EDUCATION: Authorizes the University of Louisiana System to establish tuition and fees for a Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (EN +$576,000 SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB67 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301905)
2. **HB67 Act 112** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331990)
3. **HB67 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313956)
4. **HB67 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326973)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#502) — **15–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#91) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adrian Fisher — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 112. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
- **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 100, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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`
- **2023-03-10** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/10/2023.
- **2023-03-06** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e52906c6-72d2-4f4a-aedd-1a08218a39c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).