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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the use of a surgical smoke plume evacuation system. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the use of a surgical smoke plume evacuation system. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 29"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 29 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-09"
+last_action: "2023-06-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/093657f9-b47e-4e1b-9e98-1cc6ed20acf7"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243919"
+source_hash: "aafeebefb725e1d3925ce6e401766b8c54115b53d657bda46ba8a5f278073e67"
+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 29 (2023) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the use of a surgical smoke plume evacuation system. (8/1/23) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB29 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1302531)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2573, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320198)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2688, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321001)
+4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1608, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321167)
+5. **SB29 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329066)
+6. **SB29 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313024)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #557, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312681)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #604, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312928)
+9. **SB29 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326789)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#695) — **97–3** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#512) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#76) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 35. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-05-26** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 3. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
+- **2023-05-15** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-11** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-04-24** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-18** 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`
+- **2023-03-09** 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/093657f9-b47e-4e1b-9e98-1cc6ed20acf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+