---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for insurance coverage for acupuncture (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for insurance coverage for acupuncture (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 152"
citation: "Louisiana HB 152 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/391fee6f-4eb0-4954-acc9-7779755408b0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237652"
source_hash: "5fd94b9553499874f3e74f4b5ebec57c1446f0a02c6eef05a483a86316b80243"
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 152 (2020) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for insurance coverage for acupuncture (RE INCREASE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB152 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158539)
2. **HB152 Act 250** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182321)
3. **HB152 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171919)
4. **HB152 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175459)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1856, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171685)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1872, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171897)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2419, Brown, Chad, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174873)
8. **HB152 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177726)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#332) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 01/01/2021.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-18** Reported favorably (19-0).
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/391fee6f-4eb0-4954-acc9-7779755408b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).