republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-148.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to postpartum depression. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to postpartum depression. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 148"
citation: "Louisiana SB 148 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Mizell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20d5dbb8-8747-448d-b5fe-e43ea94b53a3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246163"
source_hash: "bf107eba4addf466a7964b52739242bdd3da597bf300a95937f916aebc2103de"
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 148 (2024) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to postpartum depression. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB148 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350851)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3907, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370075)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3948, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370447)
4. **SB148 Act 301** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380771)
5. **SB148 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366652)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1910, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365038)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2054, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366270)
8. **SB148 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376472)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#968) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1108) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#407) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#408) — **6–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beth Mizell — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 301. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-05-06** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-24** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-23** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-04-17** 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/20d5dbb8-8747-448d-b5fe-e43ea94b53a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).