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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)"
+description: "MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 172"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 172 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-23"
+last_action: "2021-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03458954-db7a-460f-b281-b5540e6bd02c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239998"
+source_hash: "3540d962dacaa08b42b67898ac4bff2bc79666bcfe7f2d49963232beb484d951"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 172 (2021) — MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB172 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205870)
+2. **HB172 Act 450** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236011)
+3. **HB172 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217954)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1738, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217615)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1759, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217864)
+6. **HB172 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231479)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#494) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#718) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-23** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 450. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-06-01** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2021-05-26** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
+- **2021-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-12** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments (15-0).
+- **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.
+- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03458954-db7a-460f-b281-b5540e6bd02c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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