---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Creates the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Creates the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Louisiana SB 119 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad1e38f2-3cc1-49fa-ae20-1bde89e2769f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236065"
source_hash: "b6ae9e15f69db9600b8fd0a338e77d9770e4d4ad87ef9d58a210c298c073de42"
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 119 (2019) — HEALTH SERVICES: Creates the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB119 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120413)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2674, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134141)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3060, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136296)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2330, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136854)
5. **SB119 Act 351** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144294)
6. **SB119 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129689)
7. **SB119 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131607)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1365, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129614)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1477, Colomb, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130599)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1444, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130199)
11. **SB119 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140580)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#249) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#250) — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#662) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eric LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 351. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-22** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-06** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** 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/ad1e38f2-3cc1-49fa-ae20-1bde89e2769f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).