---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to emergency departments. (8/1/19) (RE NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to emergency departments. (8/1/19) (RE NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 36"
citation: "Louisiana SB 36 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 14
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7a9fa1e-8917-4d5c-bd92-e09ca511644b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235779"
source_hash: "426f2f4efe66e8c2578360cdc2aa3abadb3d63d1d728535de5ba27df9e74277f"
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 36 (2019) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to emergency departments. (8/1/19) (RE NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB36 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1116975)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3132, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140889)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3024, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135944)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3064, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136334)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3286, Foil, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137636)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #3472, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139663)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #3489, Miller, D., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139813)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #3492, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139831)
9. **SB36 Act 438** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144970)
10. **SB36 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123520)
11. **SB36 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125067)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #509, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123469)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #631, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124665)
14. **SB36 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143327)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1013) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT (#655) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT (#959) — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#734) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (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. 438. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-06** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-05** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-05** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2019-06-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-05** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/19.
- **2019-06-04** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2019-06-04** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 33 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2019-06-04** Conference committee report received.
- **2019-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/19.
- **2019-06-03** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2019-06-03** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2019-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2019-06-03** House conferees appointed: Dustin Miller, Hoffmann, and Foil.
- **2019-06-03** Senate conference committee members appointed: Mills, Colomb, and Luneau.
- **2019-06-02** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2019-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-30** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-30** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **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 without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-10** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-09** 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`
- **2019-03-20** 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/f7a9fa1e-8917-4d5c-bd92-e09ca511644b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).