---
type: "Bill"
title: "ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the comprehensive sports injury management program for student athletics"
description: "ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the comprehensive sports injury management program for student athletics"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 197"
citation: "Louisiana HB 197 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-25"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fb89da7-b53f-4182-af8f-b8e0048b262e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241767"
source_hash: "637bd25b0223e7068a1f3d85824c2fcbd635190cdf8c2c8935c57cb60ac93621"
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 197 (2022) — ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the comprehensive sports injury management program for student athletics

## Version chain

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

1. **HB197 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251002)
2. **HB197 Act 113** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286035)
3. **HB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261586)
4. **HB197 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263839)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1677, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262867)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1726, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262887)
7. **HB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280321)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#116) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#663) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 113. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fb89da7-b53f-4182-af8f-b8e0048b262e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).