---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid reimbursement for services provided by a licensed midwife or certified nurse midwife. (8/1/23) (EN +$39,972 GF EX See Note)"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid reimbursement for services provided by a licensed midwife or certified nurse midwife. (8/1/23) (EN +$39,972 GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 135"
citation: "Louisiana SB 135 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a06d75f-3727-48dd-8a8c-51bf2039a477"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244388"
source_hash: "c88ef6e868a2ca58504c20d7eb0ef2a9f5e9e07c6641442eaf12fbc4373e4ac8"
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 135 (2023) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid reimbursement for services provided by a licensed midwife or certified nurse midwife. (8/1/23) (EN +$39,972 GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB135 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308858)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3776, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1327309)
3. **SB135 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332217)
4. **SB135 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313057)
5. **SB135 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319765)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1307, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318816)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1457, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319690)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #591, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312845)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #611, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312938)
10. **SB135 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329376)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#273) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#677) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#769) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-08** Effective date 8/1/2023.
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 207. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-05** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-04** Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-05-31** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-10** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-05-08** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-04-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** 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/3a06d75f-3727-48dd-8a8c-51bf2039a477`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).