---
type: "Bill"
title: "ABORTION: Provides relative to abortion and the Woman's Right to Know law. (gov sig)"
description: "ABORTION: Provides relative to abortion and the Woman's Right to Know law. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 221"
citation: "Louisiana SB 221 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f65cff9-e532-492e-8f3b-6c5359d28746"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236453"
source_hash: "38685b145e624b3fe290f0e6387bdfed53cf8ed81384128917ba7e1b0f44a79d"
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 221 (2019) — ABORTION: Provides relative to abortion and the Woman's Right to Know law. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB221 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122397)
2. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2275, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136605)
3. **SB221 Act 198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143905)
4. **SB221 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124973)
5. **SB221 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126695)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #601, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124858)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #706, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125206)
8. **SB221 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140573)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#106) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#671) — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#107) — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#749) — **82–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Dan W. Morrish — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Hoffmann — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Milkovich — cosponsor (person)
- John R. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 198. `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 31 yeas and 4 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 13. 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 favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-23** The bill, as previously amended, was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, ordered reengrossed, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final 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 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/0f65cff9-e532-492e-8f3b-6c5359d28746`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).