--- type: "Bill" title: "HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission" description: "HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 544" citation: "Louisiana HB 544 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"] version_count: 11 action_count: 36 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2025-04-04" last_action: "2025-06-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65bc8ef8-6e53-4412-8861-54bf2763361e" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248590" source_hash: "f83fbd715c6bd054165f887f54d3f32b1ffdc180d098f0aaa730e68c9282fe14" 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 544 (2025) — HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB544 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404253) 2. **Conference Committee Report, #3736, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419595) 3. **HB544 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426000) 4. **HB544 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408000) 5. **HB544 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410056) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #1414, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406742) 7. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407479) 8. **House Committee Amendment, #1579, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407974) 9. **House Floor Amendment, #1980, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409819) 10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1838, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415542) 11. **HB544 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424841) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#118) — **97–0** (pass) · lower - ADOPT (#948) — **38–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#706) — **93–0** (pass) · lower - ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1203) — **85–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **37–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Christopher Turner — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025. - **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 379. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays. - **2025-06-11** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. - **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. - **2025-06-10** Conference committee report received. - **2025-06-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/11/2025. - **2025-06-10** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules. - **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2025-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: McMath, Mizell, and Owen. - **2025-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2025-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2025-05-29** House conferees appointed: Turner, Miller, and McMahen. - **2025-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2025-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2025. - **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-27** Reconsidered. - **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. - **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025. - **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65bc8ef8-6e53-4412-8861-54bf2763361e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).