---
type: "Bill"
title: "DENTISTRY: Provides for a direct primary care agreement with a dental practice. (8/1/19)"
description: "DENTISTRY: Provides for a direct primary care agreement with a dental practice. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Louisiana SB 127 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Long"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ac9b827-16f4-4ce9-ba7e-1c7935317f7d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236073"
source_hash: "3a7a09b8d1bad69df5c225b0bf363a2640577f993efab5daeb78b2cc502b0766"
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 127 (2019) — DENTISTRY: Provides for a direct primary care agreement with a dental practice. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB127 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120436)
2. **SB127 Act 55** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141929)
3. **SB127 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127192)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #905, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126501)
5. **SB127 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138615)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#627) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald Long — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 55. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-30** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-24** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** 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/7ac9b827-16f4-4ce9-ba7e-1c7935317f7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).