---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to workplace violence in healthcare settings"
description: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to workplace violence in healthcare settings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 592"
citation: "Louisiana HB 592 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f00031c5-8762-46db-b6a8-c346d5fd632c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246350"
source_hash: "02d67567af8eb5d7aeb5dc9684124ba5a73444fda3a392c8ec409c056fd510fe"
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 592 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to workplace violence in healthcare settings

## Version chain

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

1. **HB592 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351872)
2. **HB592 Act 624** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382353)
3. **HB592 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359138)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1880, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358534)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1933, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359029)
6. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2328, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368071)
7. **HB592 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379242)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1462) — **101–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#256) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#751) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 624. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f00031c5-8762-46db-b6a8-c346d5fd632c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).