---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/24)"
description: "HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "Louisiana SB 160 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efaf2bcb-c5b2-4ac7-880c-58d4967256e5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246182"
source_hash: "ee99bd755b28ba281f75eb3d5a2912d988a7477d30cb82e253e3e0b045491d04"
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 160 (2024) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to physician assistants. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB160 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350889)
2. **SB160 Act 303** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380773)
3. **SB160 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358885)
4. **SB160 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377262)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#199) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1225) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 303. `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 98, nays 0. 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 (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-03** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably. `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/efaf2bcb-c5b2-4ac7-880c-58d4967256e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).