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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation"
+description: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 976"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 976 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-04-25"
+last_action: "2024-06-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247414"
+source_hash: "4dc9288ff46ff40cb130e3c6cbabb8642dba070ece09177ed24684af4985ad36"
+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 976 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB976 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369275)
+2. **HB976 Act 666** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382691)
+3. **HB976 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369290)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3986, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376948)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4050, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377433)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4084, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377592)
+7. **HB976 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381553)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1741) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1320) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#797) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1674) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles Owen — primary (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 666. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-06-03** Reconsidered.
+- **2024-06-03** Called from the calendar.
+- **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate discharged the Comference Committee.
+- **2024-06-02** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
+- **2024-05-31** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee.
+- **2024-05-31** Discharged from Conference Committee.
+- **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2024-05-31** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Luneau, and Talbot.
+- **2024-05-30** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2024-05-30** House conferees appointed: Owen, Miller, and Melerine.
+- **2024-05-30** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
+- **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
+- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
+- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
+- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-29** 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`
+- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. 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 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
+- **2024-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-25** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 306 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (10-0).
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+