---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 91"
citation: "Louisiana HB 91 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-18"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20d5b9ad-ffa5-46cf-bebf-2bc3f7dc8561"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237529"
source_hash: "2cc359d31f54bae2a8cec9d8b892baaf651a962681a140fe867e346c02a1c405"
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 91 (2020) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health

## Version chain

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

1. **HB91 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1155792)
2. **HB91 Act 11** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180188)
3. **HB91 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165337)
4. **HB91 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176245)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#338) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 06/30/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20d5b9ad-ffa5-46cf-bebf-2bc3f7dc8561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).