---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOSPITALS: Provides relative to the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 2. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
description: "HOSPITALS: Provides relative to the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 2. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 32"
citation: "Louisiana SB 32 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f30b8697-1c1c-4643-b865-c705a8f2e64f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233202"
source_hash: "5b73dff2e894dba3e28d99e0aa298b0fe00a5ed878229ecc56f95bf4121e7e99"
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 32 (2018) — HOSPITALS: Provides relative to the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No. 2. (8/1/18) (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB32 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1064697)
2. **SB32 Act 221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099191)
3. **SB32 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079512)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1666, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079359)
5. **SB32 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093817)

## Votes

- SB 32 BY HEWITT (#215) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **88–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. `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.
- **2018-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/18.
- **2018-04-17** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-13** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-03** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-03** 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`
- **2018-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-27** 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`
- **2018-02-19** 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/f30b8697-1c1c-4643-b865-c705a8f2e64f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).