republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020s2/sb-12.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	HEALTH CARE: Provides access for patients of hospitals and residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other adult residential care homes to members of the clergy who volunteer to minister and provide religious sacraments and services, counseling, and mental health support during COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. (gov sig) (Item #28)	HEALTH CARE: Provides access for patients of hospitals and residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other adult residential care homes to members of the clergy who volunteer to minister and provide religious sacraments and services, counseling, and mental health support during COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. (gov sig) (Item #28)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020s2	SB 12	Louisiana SB 12 (2020s2)	bill		enacted	Robert Mills	12	29	5	2020-09-25	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/92d4cd76-e3ee-49cd-9069-1f088d209f97	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239435	759ba0452df2bddb697af1a5b83edff67840035d711439a56eee994f23f65565	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 12 (2020s2) — HEALTH CARE: Provides access for patients of hospitals and residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other adult residential care homes to members of the clergy who volunteer to minister and provide religious sacraments and services, counseling, and mental health support during COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. (gov sig) (Item #28)

Version chain

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

1. SB12 Original (filed) — source
2. Conference Committee Report, #849, House Adopted, Senate Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #641, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #649, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #689, Edmonds, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB12 Act 30 (committee substitute) — source
7. SB12 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. SB12 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #304, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #378, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #510, Mills, Robert, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. SB12 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#204) — 86–0 (pass) · lower
• REJECT (#177) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#79) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• ADOPT (#220) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• MOTION TO ADOPT (#249) — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Robert Mills — primary (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-28 Effective date 10/28/2020.
• 2020-10-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 30. executive-signature
• 2020-10-23 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2020-10-23 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-10-23 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-10-22 Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-10-22 Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
• 2020-10-22 Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
• 2020-10-22 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2020-10-22 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-22 Conference Committee report received.
• 2020-10-22 Conference committee report received.
• 2020-10-22 House conferees appointed: Edmonds, Bagley, and Bacala.
• 2020-10-22 Senate conference committee members appointed: Fred Mills, Boudreaux, and Robert Mills.
• 2020-10-22 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2020-10-22 Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
• 2020-10-22 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-10-21 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2020-10-21 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2020-10-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 10/21/20.
• 2020-10-20 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2020-10-20 Rules suspended.
• 2020-10-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2020-10-20 Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2020-10-14 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2020-10-13 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-10-12 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2020-09-28 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2020-09-25 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; origin ocd-bill/92d4cd76-e3ee-49cd-9069-1f088d209f97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).