---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides for the Healthcare Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection Act. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides for the Healthcare Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection Act. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 173"
citation: "Louisiana SB 173 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 11
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a02246dc-7514-489d-99e7-70d521713b2b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236231"
source_hash: "b1a68d3a2e34799ffc32ca5a417d26438ef7b77a7e8fa00b4dcbb5f39a4e5260"
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 173 (2019) — HEALTH CARE: Provides for the Healthcare Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection Act. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB173 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121517)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2601, Stagni, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133568)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #3453, Duplessis, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139538)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3471, Jackson, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139658)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3475, Brown, Chad, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139717)
6. **SB173 Act 412** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144799)
7. **SB173 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129692)
8. **SB173 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131608)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1232, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129613)
10. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1469, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130462)
11. **SB173 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140036)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 3475 BY BROWN, C., END CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS (#746) — **52–46** (fail) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#252) — **13–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#748) — **90–9** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3475 BY BROWN, C., MOTION TO ADOPT (#747) — **37–59** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#251) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 412. `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** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 9. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/19.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `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/a02246dc-7514-489d-99e7-70d521713b2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).