---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATION: Makes technical corrections to various provisions of law within the purview of the legislative committees on health and welfare"
description: "LEGISLATION: Makes technical corrections to various provisions of law within the purview of the legislative committees on health and welfare"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 326"
citation: "Louisiana HB 326 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cc825b5-2e33-4e1f-a326-3d82be9660ce"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233717"
source_hash: "801586d8ed2f1efb91f9cd8c0160a6c3e834c5dc29d581105944a5c30bc02a5c"
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 326 (2018) — LEGISLATION: Makes technical corrections to various provisions of law within the purview of the legislative committees on health and welfare

## Version chain

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

1. **HB326 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071074)
2. **HB326 Act 206** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099062)
3. **HB326 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074911)
4. **HB326 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077111)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1052, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072072)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1183, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074870)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1286, Hensgens, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075484)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3790, Barrow, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093816)
9. **HB326 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1095121)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#64) — **91–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#904) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (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. 206. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-11** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-09** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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.
- **2018-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/20/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **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/9cc825b5-2e33-4e1f-a326-3d82be9660ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).