---
type: "Bill"
title: "HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts and scholarships for certain healthcare professionals. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
description: "HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts and scholarships for certain healthcare professionals. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Louisiana SB 20 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c8b918c-1239-4379-9378-8cb8f8e14f47"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243889"
source_hash: "ced08b0720863a85302adde3067bcc4c2599a2f80dfd3de341ddef229e48458f"
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 20 (2023) — HOSPITALS: Provides relative to hospital service districts and scholarships for certain healthcare professionals. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB20 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1301391)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2571, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320186)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2707, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320985)
4. **SB20 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329063)
5. **SB20 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313070)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #523, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312110)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #602, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312925)
8. **SB20 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326783)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#511) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#693) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#73) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Effective date 6/1/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 33. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-26** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-15** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **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`
- **2023-03-01** 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/9c8b918c-1239-4379-9378-8cb8f8e14f47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).