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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH/LDH: Creates the office of surgeon general within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN GF EX See Note)"
+description: "HEALTH/LDH: Creates the office of surgeon general within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN GF EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 853"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 853 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brach Myers"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22a7ef2b-7e85-4d7f-8795-c4a6396cc26f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247009"
+source_hash: "1fb13cde8e539768693a9f7bf014db4e180f896a2939c88b446ef0cf1c48de43"
+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 853 (2024) — HEALTH/LDH: Creates the office of surgeon general within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN GF EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB853 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360702)
+2. **HB853 Act 739** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382766)
+3. **HB853 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363838)
+4. **HB853 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366091)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2892, Myers, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365074)
+6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1859, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364283)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3466, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374024)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3625, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374856)
+9. **HB853 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380032)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1554) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1119) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#509) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brach Myers — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 06/19/2024.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 739. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
+- **2024-04-10** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-09** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22a7ef2b-7e85-4d7f-8795-c4a6396cc26f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+