---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides for parish overdose fatality review panels. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides for parish overdose fatality review panels. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Louisiana SB 70 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47f48149-83b8-4e1a-ba0a-c2c6393e52ea"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245899"
source_hash: "ec55bce86a7b712cc07230ee935209c0c2d0a4dac1e23b773bff396f1d74ff90"
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 70 (2024) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides for parish overdose fatality review panels. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB70 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348514)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3916, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370084)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3945, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370347)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #4475, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373492)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #4933, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376771)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #4956, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376954)
7. **SB70 Act 498** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382202)
8. **SB70 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356154)
9. **SB70 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380054)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1272) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#138) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1417) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 498. `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.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-28** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-21** Reported with amendments (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** 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`
- **2024-02-28** 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/47f48149-83b8-4e1a-ba0a-c2c6393e52ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).