---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the creation, dedication, use, and investment of the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund. (8/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT SD EX See Note)"
description: "FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the creation, dedication, use, and investment of the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund. (8/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 229"
citation: "Louisiana SB 229 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Hensgens"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a428aac5-0f74-4466-a915-9ea80a98f5f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240654"
source_hash: "8dec01135b76bd74e66d0f169b3a417838d570d6aaf967945926f41e38ae4c73"
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 229 (2021) — FUNDS/FUNDING: Provides for the creation, dedication, use, and investment of the Health Care Employment Reinvestment Opportunity (H.E.R.O.) Fund. (8/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB229 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212394)
2. **SB229 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232842)
3. **SB229 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219814)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1435, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219637)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1458, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219785)
6. **SB229 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229678)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#286) — **18–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#791) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#285) — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bob Hensgens — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 109. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-17** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-03** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a428aac5-0f74-4466-a915-9ea80a98f5f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).