---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHERS: Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to grant five-year teaching certificates to applicants who hold out-of-state teaching certificates and who meet other criteria (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "TEACHERS: Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to grant five-year teaching certificates to applicants who hold out-of-state teaching certificates and who meet other criteria (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 472"
citation: "Louisiana HB 472 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Mincey"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a3bbaf0-f1cd-4652-b9e5-f1c3c0df89f1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244428"
source_hash: "387b0bfa01dca3e1442e5000cdd9042f5fa6533db768494a9d03ab8e82e39db4"
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 472 (2023) — TEACHERS: Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to grant five-year teaching certificates to applicants who hold out-of-state teaching certificates and who meet other criteria (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB472 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309110)
2. **HB472 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332530)
3. **HB472 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314244)
4. **HB472 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323877)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1414, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313453)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1508, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314200)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3170, Mincey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323615)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3192, Amedee, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323732)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2335, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326620)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2604, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328209)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2637, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328345)
12. **HB472 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331042)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1035) — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **88–7** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#699) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buddy Mincey — primary (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 371. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 2, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-02** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 7. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Reported favorably (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (6-5). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a3bbaf0-f1cd-4652-b9e5-f1c3c0df89f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).