---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to protections for emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, and healthcare professionals. (8/1/22)"
description: "CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to protections for emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, and healthcare professionals. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Louisiana SB 136 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed170544-164c-4f94-b728-4c718e40c4c5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242047"
source_hash: "e9705a59e22060bead149dbe646492bd95e921629ee003d073069926ea2a2e76"
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 136 (2022) — CRIME/PUNISHMENT: Provides relative to protections for emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel, and healthcare professionals. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB136 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254498)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #4719, Villio, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280487)
3. **SB136 Act 129** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1285144)
4. **SB136 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263323)
5. **SB136 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266732)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #667, JUDC, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259586)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #817, JUDC, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261015)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1373, Connick, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265873)
9. **SB136 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281871)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#735) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#148) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#952) — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-26** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 129. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-18** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-05** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-04** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-29** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed170544-164c-4f94-b728-4c718e40c4c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).