republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-976.md

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Bill	HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation	HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 976	Louisiana HB 976 (2024)	bill		enacted	Charles Owen	7	31	4	2024-04-25	2024-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247414	4dc9288ff46ff40cb130e3c6cbabb8642dba070ece09177ed24684af4985ad36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 976 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/FACILITIES: Provides relative to visitation policies at certain healthcare facilities and requires such facilities to allow in-person visitation

Version chain

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

1. HB976 Original (filed) — source
2. HB976 Act 666 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB976 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #3986, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #4050, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #4084, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. HB976 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1741) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1320) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#797) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1674) — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charles Owen — primary (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-18 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 666. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-06-03 Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/4/2024.
• 2024-06-03 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-06-03 Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-06-03 Reconsidered.
• 2024-06-03 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-06-03 Notice of Senate discharged the Comference Committee.
• 2024-06-02 Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
• 2024-05-31 Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee.
• 2024-05-31 Discharged from Conference Committee.
• 2024-05-31 Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
• 2024-05-31 Senate conference committee members appointed: Hensgens, Luneau, and Talbot.
• 2024-05-30 Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
• 2024-05-30 House conferees appointed: Owen, Miller, and Melerine.
• 2024-05-30 Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
• 2024-05-30 Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
• 2024-05-30 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2024.
• 2024-05-30 Rules suspended.
• 2024-05-30 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-29 Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-23 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-05-22 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-01 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-30 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-30 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-29 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2024.
• 2024-04-29 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-25 Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 306 reported by the Committee on Health and Welfare (10-0).

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dca2938f-a2cb-48c1-a815-cc48770ef88e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).