---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Transfers the La. Special Education Center from the Special School District to the Louisiana Department of Health and renames the center. (gov sig) (EN -$75,648 SD RV See Note)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Transfers the La. Special Education Center from the Special School District to the Louisiana Department of Health and renames the center. (gov sig) (EN -$75,648 SD RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 151"
citation: "Louisiana SB 151 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Luneau"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fb15788-43d5-4eff-bee8-3d1105a9cd9a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236142"
source_hash: "85132890494efda88abfa8d44679d08f415454795288b00be116416f944ae129"
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 151 (2019) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Transfers the La. Special Education Center from the Special School District to the Louisiana Department of Health and renames the center. (gov sig) (EN -$75,648 SD RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB151 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120905)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2109, EDUC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130816)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2701, EDUC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134547)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2021, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134804)
5. **SB151 Act 411** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144798)
6. **SB151 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124960)
7. **SB151 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126104)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #604, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124859)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #737, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125622)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #705, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125204)
11. **SB151 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139806)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#603) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#89) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#654) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Luneau — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dorothy Sue Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Frankie Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- James Armes — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Carmody — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 411. `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.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** 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 Education. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fb15788-43d5-4eff-bee8-3d1105a9cd9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).