---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGES: Authorizes city court judges to serve as the attorney member of a medical review panel"
description: "JUDGES: Authorizes city court judges to serve as the attorney member of a medical review panel"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "Louisiana HB 243 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b6ea4d8-abe1-4587-b9a3-c24d70445c3e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241826"
source_hash: "1cf723cdd790fd3d8c2a9cb3519b5b52b7145a37d2da73b3def2e2a3ddbc8d62"
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 243 (2022) — JUDGES: Authorizes city court judges to serve as the attorney member of a medical review panel

## Version chain

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

1. **HB243 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252156)
2. **HB243 Act 162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286110)
3. **HB243 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268011)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1573, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261687)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2261, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267891)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3238, Peacock, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278994)
7. **HB243 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281363)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#630) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1011) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#338) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 162. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2022.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-07** Reported with amendments (6-0-1).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b6ea4d8-abe1-4587-b9a3-c24d70445c3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).