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type: "Bill"
title: "DENTISTRY: Provides relative to dentistry. (gov sig)"
description: "DENTISTRY: Provides relative to dentistry. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 138"
citation: "Louisiana SB 138 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert \"Bob\" Owen"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d90f0d8-797e-4979-b2f8-d5ed2b06dccb"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246142"
source_hash: "57e496c8c031fc3ef162b258cd54097f5883ac4fac049761e7505675e58ed3f4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---
# Louisiana SB 138 (2024) — DENTISTRY: Provides relative to dentistry. (gov sig)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB138 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350794)
2. **SB138 Act 296** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380766)
3. **SB138 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368999)
4. **SB138 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373119)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2235, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367515)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2463, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368769)
7. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2762, Owen, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370284)
8. **SB138 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377883)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#601) — **330** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1316) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Robert "Bob" Owen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 296. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-15** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-09** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-08** Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-04-30** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d90f0d8-797e-4979-b2f8-d5ed2b06dccb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).