--- type: "Bill" title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to claims for dental services made by healthcare providers" description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to claims for dental services made by healthcare providers" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2020" identifier: "HB 353" citation: "Louisiana HB 353 (2020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"] version_count: 8 action_count: 17 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2020-02-27" last_action: "2020-06-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfb704fd-b6f8-4e2c-887b-bba1f85530f3" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237970" source_hash: "9270d1643cadf3278dc3abcd6ddb7273aea8f1a8c7ae519b7cdeb6d3f023bac3" 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 353 (2020) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to claims for dental services made by healthcare providers ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB353 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161819) 2. **HB353 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181920) 3. **HB353 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174318) 4. **HB353 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175560) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1147, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165541) 6. **House Committee Amendment, #2305, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174310) 7. **House Floor Amendment, #2411, Brown, Chad, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174796) 8. **HB353 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177452) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#359) — **98–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#479) — **35–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Chad Brown — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020. - **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 187. `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. - **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. - **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **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 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20. - **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. - **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). - **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee` - **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee` - **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfb704fd-b6f8-4e2c-887b-bba1f85530f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).