---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. (1/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. (1/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Louisiana SB 186 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barrow Peacock"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a93e8fa7-5106-4577-a05d-f6559017a543"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244598"
source_hash: "2c2f7e549a360203cc3346babfefb913c85d536fbed07541063858cf910024a1"
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 SB 186 (2023) — HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. (1/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB186 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309947)
2. **SB186 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332363)
3. **SB186 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312958)
4. **SB186 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316489)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #640, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313234)
6. **SB186 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330097)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#958) — **92–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barrow Peacock — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date 1/1/2024.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 263. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 8. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-24** Reported favorably (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a93e8fa7-5106-4577-a05d-f6559017a543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).