---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to requirements for teacher certification"
description: "TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to requirements for teacher certification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 620"
citation: "Louisiana HB 620 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-15"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87c0429e-9919-4c17-825f-724700f00479"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237004"
source_hash: "1cd1e22f22a8a73aa522ddee4de06a9da0e80f58cd0d3fa3968d21e9cfc23730"
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 620 (2019) — TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to requirements for teacher certification

## Version chain

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

1. **HB620 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134023)
2. **HB620 Act 388** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144623)
3. **HB620 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134054)
4. **HB620 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136924)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2728, McMahen, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134433)
6. **HB620 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141499)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#505) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#854) — **37–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 388. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-31** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 310 reported by the Committee on Education (8-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87c0429e-9919-4c17-825f-724700f00479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).