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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
+description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 839"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 839 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Troy Hebert"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-04-02"
+last_action: "2024-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c2632e-86b0-427d-b0c9-c4be8d434356"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246988"
+source_hash: "5f79d2fe7b574bebece5121355628649f6eaec08adf1390debf30711a99d4a3c"
+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 839 (2024) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB839 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360237)
+2. **HB839 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381932)
+3. **HB839 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366226)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2832, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364877)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2978, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366151)
+6. **HB839 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377967)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#667) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1104) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Troy Hebert — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 453. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
+- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c2632e-86b0-427d-b0c9-c4be8d434356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+