republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/sb-77.md

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Bill	MEDICAID: Provides relative to prior authorization of prescription drugs. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	MEDICAID: Provides relative to prior authorization of prescription drugs. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	SB 77	Louisiana SB 77 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jay Luneau	9	18	2	2022-02-25	2022-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/d98ac2fe-205f-4cf8-a307-cbfdd16d9bd9	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241773	3e4948b18ed492ebb44c5fd52a5fe0bf87624d676f0cebf846a7574de3678868	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 77 (2022) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to prior authorization of prescription drugs. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Version chain

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

1. SB77 Original (filed) — source
2. SB77 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. SB77 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB77 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #713, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #901, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #1147, Luneau, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1004, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. SB77 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#122) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#950) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jay Luneau — primary (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-24 Effective date 8/1/2022.
• 2022-05-24 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76. executive-signature
• 2022-05-23 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/20/2022. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-19 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-19 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2022-05-18 Received from the House without amendments.
• 2022-05-18 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-05-17 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
• 2022-05-09 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-05-05 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2022-05-04 Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-04-06 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2022-04-04 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-03-28 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-03-23 Reported with amendments.
• 2022-03-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 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/d98ac2fe-205f-4cf8-a307-cbfdd16d9bd9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).