---
type: "Bill"
title: "OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)"
description: "OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 210"
citation: "Louisiana SB 210 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c19fd59f-955e-4a2b-9621-6f9a5bae876f"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244634"
source_hash: "8ec039c2d2d6f4ffd31ae52b70a85f5ad07451905bbbf1cbc693c407bb70d078"
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 210 (2023) — OPTOMETRY: Provides relative to the practice of optometry. (8/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB210 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310032)
2. **SB210 Act 194** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332178)
3. **SB210 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316431)
4. **SB210 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320464)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #726, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314321)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #968, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316230)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1414, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1319473)
8. **SB210 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328788)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#252) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#851) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — 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. 194. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-05** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-04** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
- **2023-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-17** Reported favorably (11-0). 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.
- **2023-05-09** 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 Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 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/c19fd59f-955e-4a2b-9621-6f9a5bae876f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).