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+type: "Bill"
+title: "OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)"
+description: "OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 210"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 210 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c19fd59f-955e-4a2b-9621-6f9a5bae876f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244634"
+source_hash: "8ec039c2d2d6f4ffd31ae52b70a85f5ad07451905bbbf1cbc693c407bb70d078"
+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 210 (2023) — OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB210 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310032)
+2. **SB210 Act 194** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332178)
+3. **SB210 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316431)
+4. **SB210 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320464)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #726, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314321)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #968, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316230)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1414, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319473)
+8. **SB210 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328788)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#252) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 194. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-26** 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** 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/c19fd59f-955e-4a2b-9621-6f9a5bae876f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+