---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to disclosure of certain information relative to abortion pill reversal"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to disclosure of certain information relative to abortion pill reversal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 578"
citation: "Louisiana HB 578 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beryl Amedee"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55276328-7357-4bf9-ad0a-0920ecc8c5af"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240547"
source_hash: "2b16d38d9ac118f6c9a3431dfc972a77be4231de2171633c5cb96970d89b4a96"
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 578 (2021) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to disclosure of certain information relative to abortion pill reversal

## Version chain

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

1. **HB578 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212074)
2. **HB578 Act 483** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1236587)
3. **HB578 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221252)
4. **HB578 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224396)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2758, Amedee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223518)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3017, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230344)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3132, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230700)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3183, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230875)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3522, Mizell, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232218)
10. **HB578 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233663)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#417) — **71–27** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#904) — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1128) — **69–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beryl Amedee — primary (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-29** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-29** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 483. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 69, nays 25, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 7 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 27. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably (11-4).
- **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/55276328-7357-4bf9-ad0a-0920ecc8c5af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).