---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH: Provides relative to the licensing of \"PACE\" program providers (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
description: "HEALTH: Provides relative to the licensing of \"PACE\" program providers (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 687"
citation: "Louisiana HB 687 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhonda Butler"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/300b5fea-edfa-4595-8b6e-f441d1b756d3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246513"
source_hash: "2ff6f2f274a9317825f31894ac62aa16f5356ca2c15fc09f0b686647eb3ba99a"
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 687 (2024) — HEALTH: Provides relative to the licensing of "PACE" program providers (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB687 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352504)
2. **HB687 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381923)
3. **HB687 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358701)
4. **HB687 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362645)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2032, Butler, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359496)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1376, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359326)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2713, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370166)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2894, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370996)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3018, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371625)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3030, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371637)
11. **HB687 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377293)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#264) — **92–5** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#673) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1183) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rhonda Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 06/03/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 444. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `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`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 5. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (15-0). `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/300b5fea-edfa-4595-8b6e-f441d1b756d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).