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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)"
+description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 165"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 165 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2022-03-02"
+last_action: "2022-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/498efbfd-38c8-479d-931a-13ddff40ecfd"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242081"
+source_hash: "e15445c8e68faef8515eae528338b6c75bfc682e0ff9f746391ae14f770c7a1b"
+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 165 (2022) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB165 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254624)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3595, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275031)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3686, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275501)
+4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2741, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275787)
+5. **SB165 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283685)
+6. **SB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261908)
+7. **SB165 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265503)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1179, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263444)
+9. **SB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280619)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#901) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#696) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-24** Effective date 1/1/2023.
+- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 81. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/20/2022. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-19** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-19** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-18** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2022-05-17** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2022-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2022.
+- **2022-05-05** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-05-04** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2022-05-03** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2022-04-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-02** 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/498efbfd-38c8-479d-931a-13ddff40ecfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+