---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/19)"
description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Louisiana SB 166 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric LaFleur"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2c8cfab-abb4-4e51-8e5c-e6e3a4eafc77"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236157"
source_hash: "99817f1e440501a6b4cf77f06c1c8fad6a8330b5ebd0755bcf87b536d33d010c"
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 166 (2019) — HEALTH SERVICES: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB166 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120991)
2. **SB166 Act 276** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144037)
3. **SB166 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129726)
4. **SB166 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134097)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #528, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129611)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1706, LaFleur, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132522)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1447, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130207)
8. **SB166 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141611)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#829) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric LaFleur — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry "Truck" Gisclair — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Brown — 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. 276. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Called from the Calendar.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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/b2c8cfab-abb4-4e51-8e5c-e6e3a4eafc77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).