---
type: "Bill"
title: "DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Creates and provides for a retired volunteer dental hygienist license (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
description: "DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Creates and provides for a retired volunteer dental hygienist license (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 363"
citation: "Louisiana HB 363 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d57d45a-272b-4b89-8689-6f9a04b95a20"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237989"
source_hash: "256030f26b01384c6d0ddaeb6131c9a9b3832d71fe6e1d0dde2fadf5c6bf05ab"
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 363 (2020) — DENTISTRY/HYGIENISTS: Creates and provides for a retired volunteer dental hygienist license (EG SEE FISC NOTE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB363 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161935)
2. **HB363 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181921)
3. **HB363 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174125)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2146, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173487)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2264, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174112)
6. **HB363 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177647)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#360) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#527) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 188. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Education.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (16-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d57d45a-272b-4b89-8689-6f9a04b95a20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).