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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for utilization review and approval procedures of claims for healthcare provider services. (gov sig)"
+description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for utilization review and approval procedures of claims for healthcare provider services. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 188"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 188 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeremy Stine"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5e1d847-83d9-4b0d-9ea4-fe4892f571dc"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244600"
+source_hash: "ca3b790e2d09365bcdcdfc595e1e282337b0c1ab4a420fcb925c93a3d6cf97ce"
+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 188 (2023) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for utilization review and approval procedures of claims for healthcare provider services. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB188 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309957)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #3021, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331812)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2531, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320011)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2532, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320030)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2669, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321155)
+6. **SB188 Act 333** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332551)
+7. **SB188 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316285)
+8. **SB188 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317741)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #421, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310395)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #867, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315663)
+11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1116, Stine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317334)
+12. **SB188 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331947)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1222) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1003) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#162) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- REJECT (#942) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT (#1022) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeremy Stine — primary (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-13** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 333. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Huval, and Pressly.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Stine, Talbot, and Bernard.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
+- **2023-06-07** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-06** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-06-01** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
+- **2023-06-01** Notice given.
+- **2023-06-01** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-06-01** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/2023.
+- **2023-05-31** Notice given.
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-31** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/31/2023.
+- **2023-05-25** Notice given.
+- **2023-05-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
+- **2023-05-15** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-10** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-02** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-05-01** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** 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/b5e1d847-83d9-4b0d-9ea4-fe4892f571dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+