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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to the Hope for Louisiana Patients Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to the Hope for Louisiana Patients Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 899"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 899 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/672fcfc3-a042-487c-9066-505a100da396"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247094"
+source_hash: "131531abcc21f02675f145e87ebed7f572ac17b9b50570f4caa349fd97e25230"
+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 899 (2024) — HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to the Hope for Louisiana Patients Law (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB899 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361168)
+2. **HB899 Act 750** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382779)
+3. **HB899 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366518)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3364, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373432)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3628, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374859)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3813, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375880)
+7. **HB899 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380304)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#810) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1160) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1569) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark Wright — primary (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 750. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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`
+- **2024-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-30** Called from the calendar.
+- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
+- **2024-04-29** Notice given.
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2024-04-29** Called from the calendar.
+- **2024-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2024.
+- **2024-04-24** Notice given.
+- **2024-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
+- **2024-04-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably (11-0). `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/672fcfc3-a042-487c-9066-505a100da396`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+