republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-172.md

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Bill	MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)	MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 172	Louisiana HB 172 (2021)	bill		enacted	Rhonda Butler	6	23	2	2021-03-23	2021-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/03458954-db7a-460f-b281-b5540e6bd02c	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239998	3540d962dacaa08b42b67898ac4bff2bc79666bcfe7f2d49963232beb484d951	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 172 (2021) — MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of dental care for certain adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities (EN +$292,352 GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB172 Original (filed) — source
2. HB172 Act 450 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB172 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1738, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1759, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB172 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#494) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#718) — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rhonda Butler — primary (person)
• Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
• Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-23 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 450. executive-signature
• 2021-06-08 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-06 Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
• 2021-06-03 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-03 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2021-06-02 Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-06-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-06-01 Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-27 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2021-05-26 Reported favorably.
• 2021-05-19 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-05-18 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-18 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
• 2021-05-12 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-12 Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-04-28 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-04-27 Reported with amendments (15-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
• 2021-03-23 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03458954-db7a-460f-b281-b5540e6bd02c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).