---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Louisiana SB 55 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5412372f-4f91-4660-bdca-8546c15ad5c3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245828"
source_hash: "86aacd894159b2f03c2cdd927fad23e05a59242033fe10e938bbb629927b1540"
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 55 (2024) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB55 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347396)
2. **SB55 Act 122** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378105)
3. **SB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358889)
4. **SB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375162)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#192) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1104) — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary Carter — primary (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-22** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 122. `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** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** 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 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/5412372f-4f91-4660-bdca-8546c15ad5c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).