---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Creates the Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Creates the Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Louisiana SB 46 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70be18ee-00a6-4c27-8854-f3e315e62c0a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245798"
source_hash: "39d2ced81752d04bd634c1bd36f5ecbffa7f4e3845cf0d898de0746e21c432c9"
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 46 (2024) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Creates the Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Advisory Council within the Louisiana Department of Health. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB46 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346833)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3551, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368189)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3708, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369136)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2578, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369301)
5. **SB46 Act 121** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378104)
6. **SB46 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354328)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #591, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353201)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #705, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354067)
9. **SB46 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375344)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1038) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#767) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#43) — **16–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date 5/22/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 121. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** 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/70be18ee-00a6-4c27-8854-f3e315e62c0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).