---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to nonconsensual pelvic or rectal examinations by health care providers and medical students"
description: "HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to nonconsensual pelvic or rectal examinations by health care providers and medical students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 435"
citation: "Louisiana HB 435 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Jordan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/203c5046-beb7-4ae4-abd1-2fc198536652"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238147"
source_hash: "b3bea85fee5ecdd0f178337ff9415369926c6a657b95ba1211a3c3a9d933ceca"
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 HB 435 (2020) — HEALTH/MEDICAL TREATMENT: Provides relative to nonconsensual pelvic or rectal examinations by health care providers and medical students

## Version chain

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

1. **HB435 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162679)
2. **HB435 Act 269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182346)
3. **HB435 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174044)
4. **HB435 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175202)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2353, Ivey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174490)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2082, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176501)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2234, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177139)
8. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2145, Ward, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176759)
9. **HB435 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178565)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **79–17** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#695) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#488) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edmond Jordan — primary (person)
- Barry Ivey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 269. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-21** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (8-2).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/203c5046-beb7-4ae4-abd1-2fc198536652`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).