republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-55.md

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Bill	HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 55	Louisiana SB 55 (2024)	bill		enacted	Gary Carter	4	18	2	2024-02-26	2024-05-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5412372f-4f91-4660-bdca-8546c15ad5c3	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245828	86aacd894159b2f03c2cdd927fad23e05a59242033fe10e938bbb629927b1540	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 55 (2024) — HEALTH CARE: Provides relative to post-birth information. (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. SB55 Original (filed) — source
2. SB55 Act 122 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB55 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB55 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#192) — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1104) — 89–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gary Carter — primary (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Valarie Hodges — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-22 Effective date 8/1/2024.
• 2024-05-22 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 122. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-16 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-16 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-16 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-15 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-15 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, 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, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-30 Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-08 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-04-03 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-04-02 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-27 Reported favorably. 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
• 2024-02-26 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/5412372f-4f91-4660-bdca-8546c15ad5c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).