---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to facility need review (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
description: "HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to facility need review (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 374"
citation: "Louisiana HB 374 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66b1f6ca-13bb-49fe-ad84-26cff7db910a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246059"
source_hash: "07f0357ececacbf2f5bce896bbd0f4e999df1d01e2dce61b9ab58b8e45dcbc14"
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 374 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to facility need review (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB374 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350118)
2. **HB374 Act 692** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382713)
3. **HB374 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361784)
4. **HB374 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364010)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2639, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363727)
6. **HB374 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380756)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1373) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#346) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 692. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-29** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/66b1f6ca-13bb-49fe-ad84-26cff7db910a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).