---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides technical changes in references to federal law regarding health insurance. (8/1/20)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides technical changes in references to federal law regarding health insurance. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 174"
citation: "Louisiana SB 174 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb88fb94-976e-4c29-a49a-0cd95ba7ca74"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237833"
source_hash: "ac5431a61ff282b7c10fef16c4b9f18076439ac0e90eb3b46f35585398a6a328"
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 174 (2020) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides technical changes in references to federal law regarding health insurance. (8/1/20)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB174 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160297)
2. **SB174 Act 36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179871)
3. **SB174 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169931)
4. **SB174 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177021)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#495) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#170) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 36. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** 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/eb88fb94-976e-4c29-a49a-0cd95ba7ca74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).