---
type: "Bill"
title: "PHARMACISTS: Authorizes a pharmacist to decline to dispense a covered prescription drug if the coverage provider reimburses the pharmacy in an amount less than the drug's acquisition cost"
description: "PHARMACISTS: Authorizes a pharmacist to decline to dispense a covered prescription drug if the coverage provider reimburses the pharmacy in an amount less than the drug's acquisition cost"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 433"
citation: "Louisiana HB 433 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["H. Bernard LeBas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9112d0ea-2a03-45c2-a936-3022fe3d73ff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236253"
source_hash: "cd3f48e69e5250e60794be5bfeb34222726d5ea585f58b630fe93112d79c0c72"
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 433 (2019) — PHARMACISTS: Authorizes a pharmacist to decline to dispense a covered prescription drug if the coverage provider reimburses the pharmacy in an amount less than the drug's acquisition cost

## Version chain

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

1. **HB433 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121662)
2. **HB433 Act 161** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143694)
3. **HB433 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1131925)
4. **HB433 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141225)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#811) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#447) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- H. Bernard LeBas — primary (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-06** Effective date: 06/06/2019.
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 161. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-06-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-05-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (12-1).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9112d0ea-2a03-45c2-a936-3022fe3d73ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).