---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for insurance coverage for hearing aids. (8/1/18)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for insurance coverage for hearing aids. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 235"
citation: "Louisiana SB 235 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yvonne Colomb"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b7e134a-d9fc-4028-bddb-8c54a0e8085c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233666"
source_hash: "0810fb2840acd44872d7621beb04eb15984c95919b0e56d972ba5d7b49b5a0a7"
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 235 (2018) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for insurance coverage for hearing aids. (8/1/18)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB235 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1070691)
2. **SB235 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097966)
3. **SB235 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077445)
4. **SB235 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082630)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1257, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077375)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1973, Colomb, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082268)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1390, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077944)
8. **SB235 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093829)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#686) — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#235) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Yvonne Colomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/18.
- **2018-04-16** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-12** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-03** 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`
- **2018-03-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-21** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** 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/6b7e134a-d9fc-4028-bddb-8c54a0e8085c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).