republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/sb-23.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)	SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	SB 23	Louisiana SB 23 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Patrick McMath	6	16	2	2020-09-28	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d8a215a9-43ed-42c5-9c66-2e8768d8b82d	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239479	26d83c967d0672904fbba302440e8cd2f68951be404bfbc676ac02c7d4c50fa7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 23 (2020s2) — SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)

Version chain

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

1. SB23 Original (filed) — source
2. SB23 Act 34 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB23 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB23 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Floor Amendment, #459, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB23 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#56) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#155) — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick McMath — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-28 Effective date 10/28/2020.
• 2020-10-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 34. executive-signature
• 2020-10-21 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-21 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-20 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-19 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2020-10-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-14 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/15/20.
• 2020-10-14 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-14 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-10-14 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-13 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2020-10-12 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-07 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-09-28 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8a215a9-43ed-42c5-9c66-2e8768d8b82d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).