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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services"
+description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 429"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 429 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Cromer"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb397dd5-7683-4ca0-8def-425369a6ef09"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233855"
+source_hash: "f265236593b7fe4012c83242a9cb065fc7415c4b1bbf3cc39b38914bbc9b3bc4"
+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 429 (2018) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB429 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071674)
+2. **HB429 Act 208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099064)
+3. **HB429 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082930)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2187, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082645)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2189, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082644)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2234, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082839)
+7. **HB429 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094018)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **30–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#449) — **87–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Cromer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 01/01/2019.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 208. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-25** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-16** Called from the calendar.
+- **2018-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/18.
+- **2018-04-11** Notice given.
+- **2018-04-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/18.
+- **2018-04-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-04** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb397dd5-7683-4ca0-8def-425369a6ef09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+