republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-164.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to Office of Group Benefits health coverage programs for certain employees. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to Office of Group Benefits health coverage programs for certain employees. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 164	Louisiana SB 164 (2024)	bill		enacted	Mark Abraham	6	18	2	2024-02-29	2024-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2fa9a89b-e590-4f5d-84b3-6b7f5f373aa1	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246199	5ec430613017290a106872f25408ddfca6f1de2191c4924c49ee2f612dda106d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 164 (2024) — GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to Office of Group Benefits health coverage programs for certain employees. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Version chain

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

1. SB164 Original (filed) — source
2. SB164 Act 304 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB164 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #1499, FNCE, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #2097, FNCE, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. SB164 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#483) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1282) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Abraham — 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. 304. 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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
• 2024-05-15 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-14 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-05-13 Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-06 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-05-01 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-30 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-04-29 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 Finance. referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2fa9a89b-e590-4f5d-84b3-6b7f5f373aa1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).