---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to termination of a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
description: "EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to termination of a public health emergency. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 357"
citation: "Louisiana SB 357 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Seabaugh"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e1c50cd-4faa-4c2c-a6d2-01816f66e28e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246638"
source_hash: "389289b07d51b9754d71e53b0affc52d318e50b011c510c7ab6244a29b64cbec"
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 357 (2024) — EMERGENCY POWERS: Provides relative to termination of a public health emergency. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB357 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352792)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4559, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374032)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4621, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374478)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3594, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374687)
5. **SB357 Act 519** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382224)
6. **SB357 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368962)
7. **SB357 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370619)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2579, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369310)
9. **SB357 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379013)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#447) — **27–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1308) — **71–25** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1201) — **26–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alan Seabaugh — primary (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 6/10/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 519. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 25. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-14** Reported with amendments (9-5). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e1c50cd-4faa-4c2c-a6d2-01816f66e28e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).