---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides for definitions and exemptions relative to telemedicine and telehealth"
description: "HEALTH SERVICES: Provides for definitions and exemptions relative to telemedicine and telehealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 270"
citation: "Louisiana HB 270 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa1a44d9-b05b-4e59-9ea3-a27fd2429c29"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240125"
source_hash: "2c9eb2d29d1769b6f2bd2786d012640ad284b9f4d66cfd1e8342610cd3609711"
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 270 (2021) — HEALTH SERVICES: Provides for definitions and exemptions relative to telemedicine and telehealth

## Version chain

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

1. **HB270 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208404)
2. **HB270 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235456)
3. **HB270 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217912)
4. **HB270 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220796)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1712, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217318)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1764, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217870)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2141, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220022)
8. **HB270 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229451)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#569) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#195) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 266. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa1a44d9-b05b-4e59-9ea3-a27fd2429c29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).