---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSES: Provides relative to nursing education"
description: "NURSES: Provides relative to nursing education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 320"
citation: "Louisiana HB 320 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-29"
last_action: "2023-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82afef16-3f9c-48d0-9b3a-a7a80c63418b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244217"
source_hash: "a4e563baea13c737832598dae196acacbcbe11a8937128f6d1faa5120339d031"
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 320 (2023) — NURSES: Provides relative to nursing education

## Version chain

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

1. **HB320 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1307593)
2. **HB320 Act 80** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331597)
3. **HB320 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314304)
4. **HB320 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316366)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1158, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311748)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1309, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312800)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1540, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314276)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1865, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316145)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1412, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319472)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1567, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320731)
11. **HB320 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326304)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#399) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#676) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 80. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-05-24** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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 Health and Welfare. `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/82afef16-3f9c-48d0-9b3a-a7a80c63418b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).