---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Health Works Commission. (8/1/19)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Health Works Commission. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "Louisiana SB 54 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b03fa71-d6d4-4710-a292-bbbadc9bc1b9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235840"
source_hash: "d6bf84c72e8ac481080e46b169f48e6a5ccd7bdc3c3da4f00894f5cbc35709e7"
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 54 (2019) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Health Works Commission. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB54 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118147)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2832, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1135103)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3029, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136312)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #3438, Hoffmann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139302)
5. **SB54 Act 336** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144296)
6. **SB54 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129705)
7. **SB54 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131619)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1143, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129609)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1475, Mills, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130569)
10. **SB54 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140592)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#248) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#657) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#737) — **100–0** (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. 336. `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 37 yeas and 0 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 100, nays 0. 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 without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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`
- **2019-03-25** 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/2b03fa71-d6d4-4710-a292-bbbadc9bc1b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).