---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Authorizes local hospital assessments in certain parishes to fund the nonfederal share of Medicaid costs of health care provided in those parishes (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
description: "MEDICAID: Authorizes local hospital assessments in certain parishes to fund the nonfederal share of Medicaid costs of health care provided in those parishes (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 835"
citation: "Louisiana HB 835 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9ed9234-2da6-4d47-8b8a-31667a207428"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238821"
source_hash: "bf050d7bc4c2a400f9f8b2bf21ec602de05241e1c2682d41c16029c7f1eaadb7"
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 835 (2020) — MEDICAID: Authorizes local hospital assessments in certain parishes to fund the nonfederal share of Medicaid costs of health care provided in those parishes (EN INCREASE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB835 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168203)
2. **HB835 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182520)
3. **HB835 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169846)
4. **HB835 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173306)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1461, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169157)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1507, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169476)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1546, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169731)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1202, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170770)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1744, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174297)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1909, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175284)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2280, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177482)
12. **HB835 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178545)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#95) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#732) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#550) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 330. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 91, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2020-05-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9ed9234-2da6-4d47-8b8a-31667a207428`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).