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type: "Bill"
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title: "GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to Office of Group Benefits health coverage programs for certain employees. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
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description: "GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Provides relative to Office of Group Benefits health coverage programs for certain employees. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "SB 164"
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citation: "Louisiana SB 164 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-02-29"
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last_action: "2024-05-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fa9a89b-e590-4f5d-84b3-6b7f5f373aa1"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246199"
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source_hash: "5ec430613017290a106872f25408ddfca6f1de2191c4924c49ee2f612dda106d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# 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)
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **SB164 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350962)
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2. **SB164 Act 304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380774)
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3. **SB164 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369981)
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4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1499, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361538)
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5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2097, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366445)
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6. **SB164 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377743)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#483) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#1282) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Mark Abraham — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
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- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 304. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
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- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
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- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
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- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
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- **2024-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
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- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
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- **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`
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- **2024-04-30** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
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- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-29** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Finance. `filing, referral-committee`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fa9a89b-e590-4f5d-84b3-6b7f5f373aa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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