---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the Peace Officer and Public Safety Personnel Peer Support and Mental Health Wellness Act. (8/1/21)"
description: "LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the Peace Officer and Public Safety Personnel Peer Support and Mental Health Wellness Act. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 66"
citation: "Louisiana SB 66 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/075d199b-a89e-403b-adf2-6288dd928850"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240010"
source_hash: "61ebcfcdc18755c8caba2bd0abeef0fe5cd28e772f018474f489eb38229eb7c8"
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 66 (2021) — LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for the Peace Officer and Public Safety Personnel Peer Support and Mental Health Wellness Act. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB66 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206038)
2. **SB66 Act 283** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235420)
3. **SB66 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217861)
4. **SB66 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222873)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1046, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217235)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1138, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217793)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1864, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222795)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1207, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218188)
9. **SB66 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232796)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#301) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#300) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1040) — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 283. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-10** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-10** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/075d199b-a89e-403b-adf2-6288dd928850`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).