---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides for healthcare coverage relative to child support"
description: "CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides for healthcare coverage relative to child support"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 490"
citation: "Louisiana HB 490 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae350a07-a2d3-41a1-96eb-34cf5df27197"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233921"
source_hash: "b7a11e7fc989a8534ee30946e767e1c690a781de18613aa5cf30c8ea508d612e"
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 490 (2018) — CHILDREN/SUPPORT: Provides for healthcare coverage relative to child support

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB490 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072257)
2. **HB490 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097959)
3. **HB490 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079394)
4. **HB490 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094535)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#234) — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#804) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 05/15/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 166. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
- **2018-03-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-27** Reported favorably (5-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae350a07-a2d3-41a1-96eb-34cf5df27197`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).