---
type: "Bill"
title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to trained peer support members"
description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to trained peer support members"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 314"
citation: "Louisiana HB 314 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0568057e-81a3-4f65-8b18-04818c64db09"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244211"
source_hash: "0c51a900ce13226b6dcddf13c93f706db5b4eeb0cb172e8768da84eb5d651507"
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 314 (2023) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to trained peer support members

## Version chain

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

1. **HB314 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307586)
2. **HB314 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328146)
3. **HB314 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313550)
4. **HB314 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315111)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #692, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313832)
6. **HB314 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324105)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#71) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#367) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 23. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-09** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported favorably (13-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0568057e-81a3-4f65-8b18-04818c64db09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).