---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to health care definitions. (8/1/25)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to health care definitions. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 134"
citation: "Louisiana SB 134 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c024d90-1d3b-4646-9acb-b8d3f71be6c2"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248487"
source_hash: "c58528a2dc46394bdf07abc269a15198ff353124e94b2efaf41eafcf3c3d180c"
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 134 (2025) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to health care definitions. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB134 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403825)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3887, Hilferty, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420309)
3. **SB134 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425540)
4. **SB134 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408116)
5. **SB134 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410624)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1144, Luneau, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410485)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1148, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410528)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1151, Connick, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410551)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1154, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410584)
10. **SB134 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421153)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 1144 BY LUNEAU, SB 134 BY PRESSLY (#131) — **16–20** (fail) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 3887 BY HILFERTY, MOTION TO ADOPT (#787) — **39–57** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 3887 BY HILFERTY, MODIFY TIME LIMITS (#786) — **42–45** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 1148 BY PRESSLY, SB 134 BY PRESSLY (#130) — **26–9** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#132) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#788) — **59–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Becomes Act No. 342 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/5/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-03** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 59, nays 37. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Notice given.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/2025.
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-21** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/1c024d90-1d3b-4646-9acb-b8d3f71be6c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).