---
type: "Bill"
title: "WELFARE: Provides relative to work requirements within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
description: "WELFARE: Provides relative to work requirements within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 195"
citation: "Louisiana SB 195 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Miguez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea81d0bd-484a-4498-b110-fc438682f1e5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246242"
source_hash: "e87874200d7006d4df8781be70cae1801efd70e57382dc7e67f5fa3f6b2872d3"
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 SB 195 (2024) — WELFARE: Provides relative to work requirements within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB195 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351138)
2. **SB195 Act 308** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380779)
3. **SB195 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359301)
4. **SB195 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366185)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1360, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359127)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1371, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359256)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #843, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355031)
8. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1459, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360608)
9. **SB195 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377264)

## Votes

- CO-AUTHORS (#317) — **8–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#316) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1227) — **71–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Miguez — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 308. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 23. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2024.
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably (9-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-16** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-03** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-02** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea81d0bd-484a-4498-b110-fc438682f1e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).