---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides with respect to reporting requirements for a victim of a sexually-oriented criminal offense"
description: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides with respect to reporting requirements for a victim of a sexually-oriented criminal offense"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 443"
citation: "Louisiana HB 443 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia Smith"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bc7ddf2-438c-4369-85cd-a05462e97337"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233869"
source_hash: "1837edee9f7739b86d9c8ffea8e5ae2a88e8f171aef92fdf2f8d3d76fc1fc8ed"
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 443 (2018) — HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides with respect to reporting requirements for a victim of a sexually-oriented criminal offense

## Version chain

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

1. **HB443 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071788)
2. **HB443 Act 209** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099065)
3. **HB443 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074814)
4. **HB443 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094019)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#745) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#70) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patricia Smith — 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. 209. `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 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.
- **2018-03-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** 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/6bc7ddf2-438c-4369-85cd-a05462e97337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).