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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to the guaranteed issue of Medicare supplement policies"
+description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to the guaranteed issue of Medicare supplement policies"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 235"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 235 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pat Moore"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-27"
+last_action: "2023-06-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa8b114f-4b2f-4535-b59b-37877a3f1557"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244107"
+source_hash: "0824912dd37c1f5b0f9da3d173e20b22ec5595a206e298f31433a5bf6e8a33eb"
+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 235 (2023) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to the guaranteed issue of Medicare supplement policies
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB235 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306114)
+2. **HB235 Act 71** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331582)
+3. **HB235 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316065)
+4. **HB235 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326526)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#468) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#249) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pat Moore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 71. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-30** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-05-26** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-18** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-17** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-08** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2023.
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-26** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
+- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa8b114f-4b2f-4535-b59b-37877a3f1557`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+