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type: "Bill"
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title: "HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission"
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description: "HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 544"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 544 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
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version_count: 11
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action_count: 36
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-04-04"
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last_action: "2025-06-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65bc8ef8-6e53-4412-8861-54bf2763361e"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248590"
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source_hash: "f83fbd715c6bd054165f887f54d3f32b1ffdc180d098f0aaa730e68c9282fe14"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 544 (2025) — HEALTH CARE: Transfers powers and duties of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council and the Simulation Medical Training and Education Council to the Louisiana Health Works Commission
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB544 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404253)
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2. **Conference Committee Report, #3736, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419595)
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3. **HB544 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426000)
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4. **HB544 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408000)
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5. **HB544 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410056)
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6. **House Committee Amendment, #1414, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406742)
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7. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407479)
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8. **House Committee Amendment, #1579, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407974)
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9. **House Floor Amendment, #1980, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409819)
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10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1838, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415542)
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11. **HB544 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424841)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#118) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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- ADOPT (#948) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#397) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#706) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
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- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1203) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#396) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Christopher Turner — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
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- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 379. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-11** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
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- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
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- **2025-06-11** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
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- **2025-06-11** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
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- **2025-06-10** Conference committee report received.
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- **2025-06-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/11/2025.
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- **2025-06-10** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
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- **2025-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
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- **2025-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: McMath, Mizell, and Owen.
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- **2025-05-29** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
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- **2025-05-29** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
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- **2025-05-29** House conferees appointed: Turner, Miller, and McMahen.
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- **2025-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
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- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2025.
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- **2025-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2025-05-27** Reconsidered.
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- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended.
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- **2025-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
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- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65bc8ef8-6e53-4412-8861-54bf2763361e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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