---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides with respect to healthcare records"
description: "HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides with respect to healthcare records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 188"
citation: "Louisiana HB 188 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Beaullieu"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb9a9990-27cb-4e68-bb92-8ac9ad8a3263"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240022"
source_hash: "aaafd097274f9e46f626c4862301f7529f0bd26837f2814425792ef17776c81b"
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 188 (2021) — HEALTH CARE/RECORDS: Provides with respect to healthcare records

## Version chain

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

1. **HB188 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206270)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #3728, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230258)
3. **HB188 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235472)
4. **HB188 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214938)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1284, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214779)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1303, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214920)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2421, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226780)
8. **HB188 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234373)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1199) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#874) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1062) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#425) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#73) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beau Beaullieu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 277. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 104, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-09** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-09** Conference Committee report received.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-09** House conferees appointed: Beaullieu, Gregory Miller, and Illg.
- **2021-06-03** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-02** Senate conference committee members appointed: Peacock, Robert Mills, and Harris.
- **2021-06-01** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2021.
- **2021-04-22** Notice given.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2021.
- **2021-04-21** Notice given.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2021.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-19** Reported with amendments (9-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `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 Civil Law and Procedure. `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/fb9a9990-27cb-4e68-bb92-8ac9ad8a3263`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).