republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-197.md

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Bill	LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals	LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 197	Louisiana HB 197 (2021)	bill		enacted	Charles Owen	12	21	3	2021-03-24	2021-06-15	openstates	ocd-bill/7746b0f0-55b2-46a2-a1a4-4f2a89a2643f	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240031	cb3300dcfe27cceebdd25522b2bb3f6da7b656d5d7139dd0fa9a614a7062b771	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 197 (2021) — LICENSING: Provides relative to occupational licenses for dependents of healthcare professionals

Version chain

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

1. HB197 Original (filed) — source
2. HB197 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB197 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB197 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2025, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2026, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2175, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2433, Owen, Charles, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2946, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #3173, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3257, BUREAU, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB197 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1096) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#368) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#808) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles Owen — primary (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-15 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-15 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 279. executive-signature
• 2021-06-11 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-09 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-09 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-08 Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-06-07 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
• 2021-06-07 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-06-06 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
• 2021-06-03 Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-02 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-11 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
• 2021-05-05 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-04 Reported with amendments (11-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
• 2021-03-24 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7746b0f0-55b2-46a2-a1a4-4f2a89a2643f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).