---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to the John J. Hainkel, Jr. Home and Rehabilitation Center (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to the John J. Hainkel, Jr. Home and Rehabilitation Center (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 296"
citation: "Louisiana HB 296 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Abramson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77c88143-4313-4e89-9573-ac2080ccbbcb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233622"
source_hash: "e5a4c8f945768105b04d0eab2bef8187435dc095223eebf6420265b7b687c9d1"
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 296 (2018) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to the John J. Hainkel, Jr. Home and Rehabilitation Center (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB296 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070507)
2. **HB296 Act 205** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099061)
3. **HB296 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077418)
4. **HB296 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094015)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#264) — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Neil Abramson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 205. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Called from the calendar.
- **2018-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
- **2018-03-28** Notice given.
- **2018-03-28** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/28/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77c88143-4313-4e89-9573-ac2080ccbbcb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).