--- type: "Bill" title: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation" description: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 976" citation: "Louisiana HB 976 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Charles Owen"] version_count: 7 action_count: 31 vote_count: 4 first_action: "2024-04-25" last_action: "2024-06-18" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247414" source_hash: "4dc9288ff46ff40cb130e3c6cbabb8642dba070ece09177ed24684af4985ad36" 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 976 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB976 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369275) 2. **HB976 Act 666** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382691) 3. **HB976 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369290) 4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3986, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376948) 5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4050, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377433) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4084, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377592) 7. **HB976 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381553) ## Votes - CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1741) — **100–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#1320) — **36–0** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#797) — **97–0** (pass) · lower - REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1674) — **92–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Charles Owen — primary (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Billings — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person) - Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person) - Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person) - Peter Egan — cosponsor (person) - R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Robert Carter — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person) - Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 666. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024. - **2024-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2024-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in. - **2024-06-03** Reconsidered. - **2024-06-03** Called from the calendar. - **2024-06-03** Notice of Senate discharged the Comference Committee. - **2024-06-02** Senate Conference Committee members discharged. - **2024-05-31** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee. - **2024-05-31** Discharged from Conference Committee. - **2024-05-31** Notice of Senate conferees appointed. - **2024-05-31** Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Luneau, and Talbot. - **2024-05-30** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed. - **2024-05-30** House conferees appointed: Owen, Miller, and Melerine. - **2024-05-30** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments. - **2024-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending. - **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024. - **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. - **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-05-01** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-30** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024. - **2024-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-04-25** Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 306 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (10-0). ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).