---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL AGENCIES: Authorizes the governing authority of certain parishes to appoint members to a hospital service district. (gov sig)"
description: "LOCAL AGENCIES: Authorizes the governing authority of certain parishes to appoint members to a hospital service district. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Louisiana SB 305 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Francis C. Thompson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/111dfa9a-d535-4b79-a23f-1239c8e87222"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233978"
source_hash: "c1d16a2bbe6fb1fbbf141906a53465b46359da0a43bcdf8c81d3fa500f4a35b0"
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 305 (2018) — LOCAL AGENCIES: Authorizes the governing authority of certain parishes to appoint members to a hospital service district. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB305 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072575)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2755, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1085902)
3. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2612, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086249)
4. **SB305 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097968)
5. **SB305 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078146)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1353, L&M, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1078083)
7. **SB305 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093783)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#736) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#688) — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Francis C. Thompson — 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. 153. `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** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2018-05-03** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2018-05-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/18.
- **2018-04-16** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-13** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-12** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-02** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-26** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/111dfa9a-d535-4b79-a23f-1239c8e87222`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).