---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides that retaliation against an employee for an absence from work due to genetic testing or a medically necessary cancer screening shall be an unlawful employment practice. (8/1/23)"
description: "EMPLOYMENT: Provides that retaliation against an employee for an absence from work due to genetic testing or a medically necessary cancer screening shall be an unlawful employment practice. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 200"
citation: "Louisiana SB 200 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b97a432-cc6c-42fc-aa5c-c24e8eeb45be"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244624"
source_hash: "fcdb068cefe3e2a9007532e53018dc887b3851a1f3053be2fec8d80f626e9c27"
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 200 (2023) — EMPLOYMENT: Provides that retaliation against an employee for an absence from work due to genetic testing or a medically necessary cancer screening shall be an unlawful employment practice. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB200 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310012)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3162, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323475)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3188, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323803)
4. **SB200 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332220)
5. **SB200 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316382)
6. **SB200 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320487)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #938, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316081)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #965, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316194)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1478, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319908)
10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1081, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317186)
11. **SB200 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329384)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#673) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#251) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#863) — **93–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (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. 210. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-01** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 4. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-18** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-05-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-26** 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 Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b97a432-cc6c-42fc-aa5c-c24e8eeb45be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).