---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 192"
citation: "Louisiana HB 192 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/078d5350-a3c7-4a05-ab90-4953a8394aff"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245766"
source_hash: "9264f4fe4ad919278191fefed86cfb56ea27c95719fe621898ff37384ed0177a"
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 HB 192 (2024) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Louisiana Department of Health

## Version chain

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

1. **HB192 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346687)
2. **HB192 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372986)
3. **HB192 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358773)
4. **HB192 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370807)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#234) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#466) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 06/30/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 20. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-30** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/03/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/078d5350-a3c7-4a05-ab90-4953a8394aff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).