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type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to suicide prevention in schools"
description: "SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to suicide prevention in schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 53"
citation: "Louisiana HB 53 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart Moss"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-08"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0294583b-5356-4b5c-b0a5-ac2b0a5ee560"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235686"
source_hash: "cf64b754b80e0389a75a62e6099e32caf94fa7aa1c26fcc52eeef530d2f614eb"
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 53 (2019) — SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Provides relative to suicide prevention in schools
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114531)
2. **HB53 Act 93** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143268)
3. **HB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132127)
4. **HB53 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135820)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2099, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130767)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2298, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132061)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2529, Moss, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133216)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2993, Abramson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135764)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1751, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132861)
10. **HB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139580)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#412) — **980** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Stuart Moss — primary (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dorothy Sue Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome "Dee" Richard — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Johnny Berthelot — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- John E. "Johnny" Guinn — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Huval — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Abramson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Pugh — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 93. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2019.
- **2019-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0294583b-5356-4b5c-b0a5-ac2b0a5ee560`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).