---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/LDH: Establishes the Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH/LDH: Establishes the Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 460"
citation: "Louisiana HB 460 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Hollis"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7559572c-58ef-493c-bf69-09ff4b05853a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240414"
source_hash: "8447fb3181b55415d3cb989c8c17fa930f5816a26957bca3a6b2ad8694135001"
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 460 (2021) — HEALTH/LDH: Establishes the Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB460 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211488)
2. **HB460 Act 321** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235637)
3. **HB460 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218420)
4. **HB460 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221384)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1296, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218821)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2231, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225882)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2344, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226456)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2805, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229316)
9. **HB460 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232547)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#712) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1019) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul Hollis — primary (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. 321. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-24** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported favorably (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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7559572c-58ef-493c-bf69-09ff4b05853a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).