---
type: "Bill"
title: "DENTISTRY: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry"
description: "DENTISTRY: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 69"
citation: "Louisiana HB 69 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e69caf30-21b4-4843-a078-31a16ba1bcc5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235704"
source_hash: "5bb048f54c0dfc08b0abea37e67d3b15bc5f8d60bbaf0e39133e15ae95d17f58"
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 69 (2019) — DENTISTRY: Provides relative to the membership of the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry

## Version chain

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

1. **HB69 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1115173)
2. **HB69 Act 324** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144253)
3. **HB69 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127495)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1345, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126213)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1548, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127337)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1861, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134319)
7. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2159, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135705)
8. **HB69 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139501)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#159) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#434) — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#642) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 324. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2019-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/15/2019.
- **2019-03-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e69caf30-21b4-4843-a078-31a16ba1bcc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).