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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law"
+description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 635"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 635 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Bamburg Jr."]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f7ca490-23f5-4851-a4e0-7df92ca2833f"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248735"
+source_hash: "a0f508d47185781e549a088a75c0df702e56a4507c031760d3175167191d6697"
+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 635 (2025) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB635 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404688)
+2. **HB635 Act 313** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425636)
+3. **HB635 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410118)
+4. **HB635 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414579)
+5. **HB635 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412436)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1406, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406732)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1970, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410080)
+8. **House Committee Amendment, #2160, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411073)
+9. **House Committee Amendment, #2420, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412351)
+10. **House Floor Amendment, #2699, Bamburg, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413767)
+11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2423, Bass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419228)
+12. **HB635 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421597)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#546) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#822) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-16** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-16** Becomes Act No. 313 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2025-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-04** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
+- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
+- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
+- **2025-05-08** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-07** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
+- **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f7ca490-23f5-4851-a4e0-7df92ca2833f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+