---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides for the repeal of certain inactive or obsolete healthcare laws. (8/1/22)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides for the repeal of certain inactive or obsolete healthcare laws. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "Louisiana SB 31 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cc2a4d3-dcea-430c-acc1-db5df07cba1b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241588"
source_hash: "88e6860acd5ce0b176f873c7eacd0966f32a4ef99a2c662d58c2821dc6acdc89"
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 31 (2022) — HEALTH CARE: Provides for the repeal of certain inactive or obsolete healthcare laws. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB31 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247333)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #5107, Pressly, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283374)
3. **SB31 Act 252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288681)
4. **SB31 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259604)
5. **SB31 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283539)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#37) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1182) — **95–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 252. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 3. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-16** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** 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/4cc2a4d3-dcea-430c-acc1-db5df07cba1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).