---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSING HOMES: Provides relative to nursing home requirements and standards for emergency preparedness plans"
description: "NURSING HOMES: Provides relative to nursing home requirements and standards for emergency preparedness plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Louisiana HB 123 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-16"
last_action: "2023-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da346990-8033-451f-805e-d50ace91bb75"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243966"
source_hash: "f3e4f3e25bee6ba9813c72b3560fc480c3138478400da8c20e5bfcf23055ec86"
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 123 (2023) — NURSING HOMES: Provides relative to nursing home requirements and standards for emergency preparedness plans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB123 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1303565)
2. **HB123 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325707)
3. **HB123 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314330)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1135, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311634)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1534, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314237)
6. **HB123 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321145)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#279) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-17** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/17/2023.
- **2023-03-16** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da346990-8033-451f-805e-d50ace91bb75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).