--- type: "Bill" title: "SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Designates the month of September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. (8/1/20)" description: "SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Designates the month of September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. (8/1/20)" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2020" identifier: "SB 198" citation: "Louisiana SB 198 (2020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Barrow Peacock"] version_count: 6 action_count: 17 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2020-02-26" last_action: "2020-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ef0d9ca-b462-4cd7-8eb1-a98594447197" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237879" source_hash: "12a0b02d874ec6d7d2a7a912df82864c2900c20d732ddb403d1f43327043a97e" 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 198 (2020) — SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Designates the month of September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. (8/1/20) ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **SB198 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160765) 2. **SB198 Act 221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181999) 3. **SB198 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165265) 4. **SB198 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171265) 5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #820, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1166724) 6. **SB198 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177011) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#91) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#497) — **96–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Barrow Peacock — primary (person) - Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person) - Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person) - Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person) - Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person) - Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person) - Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person) - Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person) - Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person) - C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person) - Chad Brown — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person) - Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Ed Price — cosponsor (person) - Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person) - Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person) - Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person) - Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person) - Glen Womack — cosponsor (person) - Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person) - Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person) - Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person) - Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person) - John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person) - Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person) - Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person) - Ken Brass — cosponsor (person) - Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person) - Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Lance Harris — cosponsor (person) - Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person) - Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person) - Larry Selders — cosponsor (person) - Les Farnum — cosponsor (person) - Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person) - Malinda White — cosponsor (person) - Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person) - Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person) - Michael Echols — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Mike Reese — cosponsor (person) - Neil Riser — cosponsor (person) - Pat Moore — cosponsor (person) - Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person) - Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person) - Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person) - R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person) - R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person) - Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person) - Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person) - Robert Carter — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person) - Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person) - Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person) - Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person) - Scott McKnight — cosponsor (person) - Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person) - Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person) - Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person) - Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person) - Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person) - Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person) - Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person) - Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person) - William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2020-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2020. - **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 221. `executive-signature` - **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt` - **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2020-05-28** Received from the House without amendments. - **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20. - **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. - **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. - **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee` - **2020-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2020-03-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2020-03-11** Reported favorably. - **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee` - **2020-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ef0d9ca-b462-4cd7-8eb1-a98594447197`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).