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+type: "Bill"
+title: "GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+description: "GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 150"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 150 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-04-01"
+last_action: "2021-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b08163d9-cbc5-4458-8e80-cbb8613d17ec"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240319"
+source_hash: "eaa7e25592a5a7237fa20bfbc07b10f09e66a21e63b6fe360d1cef110808b070"
+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 SB 150 (2021) — GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB150 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210740)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3123, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225700)
+3. **SB150 Act 388** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235877)
+4. **SB150 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218632)
+5. **SB150 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224181)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1127, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217862)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1251, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218388)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2004, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223990)
+9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1306, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218838)
+10. **SB150 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233231)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#974) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#357) — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#975) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#356) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-16** Effective date 8/1/2021.
+- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 388. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/11/2021. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-09** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-08** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2021-06-06** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2021-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
+- **2021-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2021-05-24** Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-19** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
+- **2021-05-17** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2021-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-11** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-10** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
+- **2021-04-28** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
+- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b08163d9-cbc5-4458-8e80-cbb8613d17ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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