---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/CANCER: Provides relative to colorectal cancer screening (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH/CANCER: Provides relative to colorectal cancer screening (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 361"
citation: "Louisiana HB 361 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3ec3bb9-fea5-4e30-81ad-39befdb2f203"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246045"
source_hash: "9baf90fd8d42ec43d0885d9106b9e9d80b22a77944e5f3bcfe3a78ee28300c1f"
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 361 (2024) — HEALTH/CANCER: Provides relative to colorectal cancer screening (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB361 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350008)
2. **HB361 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379539)
3. **HB361 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364000)
4. **HB361 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365635)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2538, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363103)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2656, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363886)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2998, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365400)
8. **HB361 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374347)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#491) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#662) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 218. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3ec3bb9-fea5-4e30-81ad-39befdb2f203`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).