---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Authorizes transportation network companies to provide nonemergency medical transportation services through the state Medicaid program (EN GF EX See Note)"
description: "MEDICAID: Authorizes transportation network companies to provide nonemergency medical transportation services through the state Medicaid program (EN GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 80"
citation: "Louisiana HB 80 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3946c439-90ef-4be0-be7d-cb6978959f57"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245622"
source_hash: "6511ebd542ecb45c461a395c6eabeb78412b1771e230f6240e887d85490f2287"
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 80 (2024) — MEDICAID: Authorizes transportation network companies to provide nonemergency medical transportation services through the state Medicaid program (EN GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB80 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343356)
2. **HB80 Act 677** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382698)
3. **HB80 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358625)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1723, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357547)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1764, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357890)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1836, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358597)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3976, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376908)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #4080, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377583)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4223, McMath, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378541)
10. **HB80 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381132)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1299) — **33–3** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#169) — **60–39** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1698) — **71–26** (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. 677. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/2/2024.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 26, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-31** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Notice given.
- **2024-05-30** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-22** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 60, nays 39. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (9-3). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3946c439-90ef-4be0-be7d-cb6978959f57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).