republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/sb-197.md

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Bill	TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)	TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2023	SB 197	Louisiana SB 197 (2023)	bill		enacted	Barrow Peacock	13	23	3	2023-03-31	2023-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/55fe2f93-b853-4c4d-8bf2-95ca16d8fc97	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244621	97432596a573db9d5e98d3faa03dac8d1ea3a588a5793b192eaaf8670a4e3d75	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 197 (2023) — TEACHERS: Provides relative to teacher certification. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB197 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #3542, Freiberg, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. SB197 Act (committee substitute) — source
4. SB197 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. SB197 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB197 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1293, R&F, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #648, EDUC, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #671, EDUC, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #889, R&F, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Amendment, #1466, Peacock, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1328, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. SB197 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR (#915) — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#944) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#232) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barrow Peacock — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-14 Effective date 6/14/2023.
• 2023-06-14 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 392. became-law, executive-signature
• 2023-06-08 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2023-06-07 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2023-06-07 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2023-06-06 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays.
• 2023-06-05 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2023-06-05 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2023-06-01 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
• 2023-05-25 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2023-05-24 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2023-05-23 Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-17 Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
• 2023-05-16 Reported favorably (10-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-10 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-05-09 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2023-05-08 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re- reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2023-05-04 Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2023-05-03 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-25 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
• 2023-04-24 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education. referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Education. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55fe2f93-b853-4c4d-8bf2-95ca16d8fc97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).