---
type: "Bill"
title: "WELFARE: Provides relative to employment, education, and related services for FITAP participants. (gov sig) (EN -$27,696 FF EX See Note)"
description: "WELFARE: Provides relative to employment, education, and related services for FITAP participants. (gov sig) (EN -$27,696 FF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "Louisiana SB 116 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Tarver"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aeb8569-e8b1-4d96-8e58-a8582306b9f8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240181"
source_hash: "104df64bb4bd15005bbcec89f442bbdee69fe4b11eb841bb2668a0e3dda53e14"
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 SB 116 (2021) — WELFARE: Provides relative to employment, education, and related services for FITAP participants. (gov sig) (EN -$27,696 FF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB116 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208943)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3522, Larvadain, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228382)
3. **SB116 Act 209** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235332)
4. **SB116 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214022)
5. **SB116 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230570)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#738) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#642) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#65) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory Tarver — primary (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 209. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-19** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8aeb8569-e8b1-4d96-8e58-a8582306b9f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).