---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias"
description: "PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 397"
citation: "Louisiana HB 397 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Malinda White"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b89c38cf-a75c-4e43-9b5e-c78c83cc6130"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240309"
source_hash: "590e53bf7acd5db0b46cf995298d10058bf1633741272c604e758157ab87b7b7"
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 397 (2021) — PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

## Version chain

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

1. **HB397 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210614)
2. **HB397 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231956)
3. **HB397 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217215)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1425, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215631)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1474, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216017)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1594, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217117)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1924, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223325)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1999, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224006)
9. **HB397 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228051)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#394) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#158) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#678) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#395) — **16–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Malinda White — primary (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 73. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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.
- **2021-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-26** Reported with amendments (15-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b89c38cf-a75c-4e43-9b5e-c78c83cc6130`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).