---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS: Provides for teacher certification and professional development with respect to numeracy (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
description: "TEACHERS: Provides for teacher certification and professional development with respect to numeracy (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 321"
citation: "Louisiana HB 321 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Wyble"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fad664d-a8f2-4613-9167-34e8e376eb83"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248286"
source_hash: "c2f46b70e38186402f9d31470ec28eb4e1d4742130b7292c17cd678f0d53a3fc"
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 321 (2025) — TEACHERS: Provides for teacher certification and professional development with respect to numeracy (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB321 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402293)
2. **HB321 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425960)
3. **HB321 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407721)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1047, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404904)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1534, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407681)
6. **HB321 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424800)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#949) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- e2/3 (#932) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO CONSIDER AFTER 57TH DAY (#1213) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Wyble — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 353. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-11** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day.
- **2025-06-11** By a vote of 98 yeas, 0 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 57th calendar day.
- **2025-06-11** Notice Senate approved consideration after the 57th legislative day.
- **2025-06-11** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 57th calendar day by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-10** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-05-12** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2025-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fad664d-a8f2-4613-9167-34e8e376eb83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).