republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-372.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to patient wait time for the provision of emergency care (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to patient wait time for the provision of emergency care (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 372"
citation: "Louisiana HB 372 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/432809a8-42df-4520-919b-39030e1e7b9e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246057"
source_hash: "ef52bc9f717f005cfbc06df37cf587811985d109f074b8cd2cecde50fcde093e"
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 HB 372 (2024) — HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS: Provides relative to patient wait time for the provision of emergency care (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB372 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350117)
2. **HB372 Act 691** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382712)
3. **HB372 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362573)
4. **HB372 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367152)
5. **HB372 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365425)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1058, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353162)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2274, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361806)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2354, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362435)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2920, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365169)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2973, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365401)
11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1978, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365723)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3578, H&W, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374574)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3624, H&W, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374854)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3884, Bass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376504)
15. **HB372 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380900)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1541) — **83–3** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#609) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1110) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 691. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 3, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2024-04-04** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/432809a8-42df-4520-919b-39030e1e7b9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).