---
type: "Bill"
title: "LICENSING: Provides relative to individuals providing hospice care"
description: "LICENSING: Provides relative to individuals providing hospice care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Louisiana HB 431 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cff7995-2cb2-4400-a2ab-c4488d86ce2b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236251"
source_hash: "9aa9ec727b75d0707bcf2304d8ab2311523944145025d54d8508e52c2fe5b609"
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 431 (2019) — LICENSING: Provides relative to individuals providing hospice care

## Version chain

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

1. **HB431 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121660)
2. **HB431 Act 229** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144092)
3. **HB431 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127785)
4. **HB431 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132166)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1220, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125378)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1544, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127726)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1855, Jackson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131936)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2074, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136689)
9. **HB431 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142191)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — **78–17** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#910) — **75–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson — primary (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 229. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-05** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 18, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/19.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-06-01** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 78, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cff7995-2cb2-4400-a2ab-c4488d86ce2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).