republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/sb-150.md

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Bill	GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	SB 150	Louisiana SB 150 (2021)	bill		enacted	Regina Ashford Barrow	10	23	4	2021-04-01	2021-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/b08163d9-cbc5-4458-8e80-cbb8613d17ec	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240319	eaa7e25592a5a7237fa20bfbc07b10f09e66a21e63b6fe360d1cef110808b070	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 150 (2021) — GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB150 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #3123, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. SB150 Act 388 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB150 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. SB150 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1127, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1251, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #2004, Barrow, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1306, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. SB150 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#974) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#357) — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#975) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#356) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)
• Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
• Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
• Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
• Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Carter Peterson — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
• Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-16 Effective date 8/1/2021.
• 2021-06-16 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 388. executive-signature
• 2021-06-10 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/11/2021. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-10 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-09 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-08 Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2021-06-06 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2021-06-03 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-06-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2021.
• 2021-05-26 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-25 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2021-05-24 Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-05-19 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-05-18 Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2021-05-17 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-05-13 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2021-05-12 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-05-11 Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-05-10 Reported favorably.
• 2021-04-29 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2021-04-28 Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
• 2021-04-12 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2021-04-01 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/b08163d9-cbc5-4458-8e80-cbb8613d17ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).