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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of cancer treatments."
+description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of cancer treatments."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 204"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 204 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-27"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d7075e3-72d0-4b93-95e3-04b0f9a359ed"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237942"
+source_hash: "d9d285201a3827fae9da68bae5ed3467d49cf8e162e3da00da585a5e08d1f024"
+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 204 (2020) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of cancer treatments.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB204 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161637)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2638, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176161)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2695, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176451)
+4. **SB204 Act 222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182000)
+5. **SB204 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172211)
+6. **SB204 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178418)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#249) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#634) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#584) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles A. Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Clay Schexnayder — cosponsor (person)
+- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul Hollis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2021.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 222. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-29** Called from the calendar.
+- **2020-05-29** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
+- **2020-05-27** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-19** Called from the Calendar.
+- **2020-05-18** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2020-05-14** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** 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/3d7075e3-72d0-4b93-95e3-04b0f9a359ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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