---
type: "Bill"
title: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C"
description: "BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 704"
citation: "Louisiana HB 704 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia Smith"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-15"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fc0ca0f-31ae-4bb9-a843-e21501d28383"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234375"
source_hash: "3d21d2d2cbf64ff4abf45d63049cad1039a26bd86454bde01c8aab0c66a040f6"
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 704 (2018) — BOARDS/COMMISSIONS: Provides relative to the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C

## Version chain

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

1. **HB704 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075507)
2. **HB704 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097997)
3. **HB704 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075582)
4. **HB704 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079180)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1312, Smith, P., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075747)
6. **HB704 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094003)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#117) — **87–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#749) — **31–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patricia Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 05/15/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 177. `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.
- **2018-03-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/26/18.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 535 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (11-0).

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fc0ca0f-31ae-4bb9-a843-e21501d28383`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).