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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Authorizes group health insurance providers to consent on behalf of their employees for use of electronic documents. (8/1/19)"
+description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Authorizes group health insurance providers to consent on behalf of their employees for use of electronic documents. (8/1/19)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 64"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 64 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John R. Smith"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-06-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb6fca49-cb24-4d10-8eb2-308fe9fc7736"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235913"
+source_hash: "088c04341c7fd029047711595d329bef055d04911a979217e44216ad0134abc8"
+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 SB 64 (2019) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Authorizes group health insurance providers to consent on behalf of their employees for use of electronic documents. (8/1/19)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB64 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118869)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2271, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131639)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2316, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131958)
+4. **SB64 Act 47** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141913)
+5. **SB64 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124884)
+6. **SB64 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138493)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#547) — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#517) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#102) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John R. Smith — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2019.
+- **2019-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2019-05-23** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
+- **2019-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb6fca49-cb24-4d10-8eb2-308fe9fc7736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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