republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-472.md

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Bill	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)	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)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	HB 472	Louisiana HB 472 (2023)	bill		enacted	Buddy Mincey	12	24	3	2023-03-31	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/3a3bbaf0-f1cd-4652-b9e5-f1c3c0df89f1	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244428	387b0bfa01dca3e1442e5000cdd9042f5fa6533db768494a9d03ab8e82e39db4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. HB472 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB472 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB472 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1414, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1508, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #3170, Mincey, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #3192, Amedee, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #2335, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #2604, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #2637, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB472 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/3a3bbaf0-f1cd-4652-b9e5-f1c3c0df89f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).