---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH: Provides relative to universal perinatal mood disorder screening for primary care doctors"
description: "HEALTH: Provides relative to universal perinatal mood disorder screening for primary care doctors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 784"
citation: "Louisiana HB 784 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/732b9420-105a-49df-8dfc-04334b724a49"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242650"
source_hash: "a880edea2e4dbb6e628772560639957c659bc5038c3c9c94b979656a28d82c7a"
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 784 (2022) — HEALTH: Provides relative to universal perinatal mood disorder screening for primary care doctors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB784 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258044)
2. **HB784 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286141)
3. **HB784 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267590)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2136, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266978)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2162, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267481)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3004, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277733)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3075, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278009)
8. **HB784 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281352)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#684) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1018) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#287) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (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. 188. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2022-04-14** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-13** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (14-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/732b9420-105a-49df-8dfc-04334b724a49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).