---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ANATOMICAL GIFTS: Provides for rights of qualified organ transplant candidates who have a disability"
description: "HEALTH/ANATOMICAL GIFTS: Provides for rights of qualified organ transplant candidates who have a disability"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 143"
citation: "Louisiana HB 143 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Malinda White"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7039031-e018-43a7-9ae8-ec6d6d31591f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235821"
source_hash: "31f432755977c038f8f8b4a7275de820a64a5c36327a0743d97a9c4326ec220b"
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 143 (2019) — HEALTH/ANATOMICAL GIFTS: Provides for rights of qualified organ transplant candidates who have a disability

## Version chain

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

1. **HB143 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1117939)
2. **HB143 Act 57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1142733)
3. **HB143 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127386)
4. **HB143 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136629)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#166) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#437) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#438) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Malinda White — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad Appel — cosponsor (person)
- Dale Erdey — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Claitor — cosponsor (person)
- Danny Martiny — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Long — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
- J.P. Morrell — cosponsor (person)
- James R. Fannin — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Alario — cosponsor (person)
- John Milkovich — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Walsworth — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Norby Chabert — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Gatti — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- Wesley Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Yvonne Colomb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30** Effective date: 05/30/2019.
- **2019-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 57. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7039031-e018-43a7-9ae8-ec6d6d31591f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).