---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/HOME CARE: Amends laws relative to home health care"
description: "HEALTH/HOME CARE: Amends laws relative to home health care"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 187"
citation: "Louisiana HB 187 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc6c15fb-856d-40f4-b98c-43cfe6c5985f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240021"
source_hash: "668566845c3413debfffebf35c5b5e9e34634654fce0353f0541a7b42a98ab58"
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 187 (2021) — HEALTH/HOME CARE: Amends laws relative to home health care

## Version chain

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

1. **HB187 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206268)
2. **HB187 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235113)
3. **HB187 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218237)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1920, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223257)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1995, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223931)
6. **HB187 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231045)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#568) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#929) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 181. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc6c15fb-856d-40f4-b98c-43cfe6c5985f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).