--- type: "Bill" title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Disaster and Emergency Medical Services Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society. (gov sig)" description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Disaster and Emergency Medical Services Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society. (gov sig)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2018" identifier: "SB 284" citation: "Louisiana SB 284 (2018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jay Luneau"] version_count: 5 action_count: 19 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2018-03-01" last_action: "2018-05-15" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f71e4f7-3b3d-49a1-a5a4-578363d8b83e" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233740" source_hash: "e0e00ff570f91c5d084ab588cad1ce3d6bc476d1a3246ddb6867eb3aa0537907" 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 SB 284 (2018) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Disaster and Emergency Medical Services Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society. (gov sig) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB284 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071280) 2. **SB284 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097967) 3. **SB284 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077781) 4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #961, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1075085) 5. **SB284 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093773) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#171) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature - FINAL PASSAGE (#746) — **98–0** (pass) · legislature ## Sponsors - Jay Luneau — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2018-05-15** Effective date 5/15/2018. - **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 152. `executive-signature` - **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt` - **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments. - **2018-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2018-05-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order. - **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/18. - **2018-04-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. - **2018-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2018-04-17** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2018-03-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee` - **2018-03-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules. - **2018-03-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2018-03-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2018-03-21** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. - **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee` - **2018-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f71e4f7-3b3d-49a1-a5a4-578363d8b83e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).