---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to criminal history record information obtained by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
description: "HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to criminal history record information obtained by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "Louisiana SB 19 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8fe92b5-b087-4351-83bb-3797def9f42b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235662"
source_hash: "80413935a3f82720309aa7c0e739ad17a45a5aad6b10fdbb0dd563c3de0fb586"
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 19 (2019) — HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to criminal history record information obtained by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (8/1/19) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB19 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1113639)
2. **SB19 Act 265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144063)
3. **SB19 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123534)
4. **SB19 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125060)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #504, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123409)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #559, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123917)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #521, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1123662)
8. **SB19 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141603)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#56) — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#834) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 265. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-04** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/02/19.
- **2019-05-31** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2019-05-21** Reported favorably (13-0-1). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 1 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-10** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-09** 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`
- **2019-02-27** 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/c8fe92b5-b087-4351-83bb-3797def9f42b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).