---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/LDH: Authorizes the Louisiana Department of Health office of behavioral health to conduct reviews of deaths of persons served by the office"
description: "HEALTH/LDH: Authorizes the Louisiana Department of Health office of behavioral health to conduct reviews of deaths of persons served by the office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "Louisiana HB 240 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Hughes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2af16b6-2e8d-498d-ac0d-0f1e5760c59f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237792"
source_hash: "88983d631a34f0054b40ae4b998609dc7acc8c18bd332b4059c45da8ca8e97f3"
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 HB 240 (2020) — HEALTH/LDH: Authorizes the Louisiana Department of Health office of behavioral health to conduct reviews of deaths of persons served by the office

## Version chain

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

1. **HB240 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159757)
2. **HB240 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180297)
3. **HB240 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165320)
4. **HB240 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170385)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1128, Hughes, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165472)
6. **HB240 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176288)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#347) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#18) — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date: 06/05/20.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 77. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (15-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2af16b6-2e8d-498d-ac0d-0f1e5760c59f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).