---
type: "Bill"
title: "FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides for forecasting of the Medicaid program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
description: "FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides for forecasting of the Medicaid program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Louisiana SB 166 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f5d722b-ebcc-4bce-804f-aa4524dbf985"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237818"
source_hash: "2f956d738a93d48b0e84e00da541c43887f7c7ac52f865373467724812906bb5"
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 166 (2020) — FISCAL CONTROLS: Provides for forecasting of the Medicaid program. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB166 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160059)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2490, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175159)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2504, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175446)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2522, Zeringue, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175371)
5. **SB166 Act 347** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182600)
6. **SB166 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173174)
7. **SB166 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174678)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1617, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173828)
9. **SB166 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178037)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#607) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#539) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 347. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-22** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-22** Reported with amendments (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f5d722b-ebcc-4bce-804f-aa4524dbf985`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).