republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/hb-397.md

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Bill	PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias	PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	HB 397	Louisiana HB 397 (2021)	bill		enacted	Malinda White	9	22	4	2021-04-01	2021-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/b89c38cf-a75c-4e43-9b5e-c78c83cc6130	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240309	590e53bf7acd5db0b46cf995298d10058bf1633741272c604e758157ab87b7b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 397 (2021) — PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to public health programs and services related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Version chain

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

1. HB397 Original (filed) — source
2. HB397 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB397 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1425, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1474, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1594, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1924, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1999, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB397 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#394) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#158) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#678) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#395) — 16–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Malinda White — primary (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
• Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-04 Effective date: 08/01/2021.
• 2021-06-04 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 73. executive-signature
• 2021-05-28 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2021-05-27 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-05-27 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-05-25 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2021-05-20 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2021.
• 2021-05-18 Received from the Senate with amendments.
• 2021-05-18 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-17 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-13 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-12 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
• 2021-05-05 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2021-05-03 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-04-27 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/2021.
• 2021-04-27 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-04-26 Reported with amendments (15-0).
• 2021-04-12 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-04-02 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
• 2021-04-01 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-04-01 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b89c38cf-a75c-4e43-9b5e-c78c83cc6130. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).