republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-972.md

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Bill	LICENSING: Allows the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to grant certain temporary permits and licenses	LICENSING: Allows the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to grant certain temporary permits and licenses	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 972	Louisiana HB 972 (2024)	bill		enacted	Daryl Deshotel	7	20	4	2024-04-23	2024-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/185846c4-6f94-4e8a-b857-23f815de8268	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247360	a7c6f65523f56765008dc43a8f6481813e583267bd34cfab0fe92a6d83ad29e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 972 (2024) — LICENSING: Allows the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to grant certain temporary permits and licenses

Version chain

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

1. HB972 Original (filed) — source
2. HB972 Act 646 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB972 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #3865, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #4082, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #4256, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB972 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• HEALTH AND WELFARE (#783) — 14–81 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#784) — 99–3 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1319) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1673) — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daryl Deshotel — primary (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-11 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 646. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-04 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-05-31 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-30 Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-05-30 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
• 2024-05-30 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-30 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-29 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-28 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-23 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-22 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-01 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-30 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-30 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-29 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
• 2024-04-24 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-23 Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 959 reported by the Committee on Commerce (15-0).

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/185846c4-6f94-4e8a-b857-23f815de8268. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).