---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides with respect to the Louisiana Health Plan. (gov sig) (RE SEE FISC NOTE OF RV See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides with respect to the Louisiana Health Plan. (gov sig) (RE SEE FISC NOTE OF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 231"
citation: "Louisiana SB 231 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/568e24d3-8b5d-4f16-8398-238152bab177"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237983"
source_hash: "607d77aee0cb348822bbdf075daacde5874bc5ba36d6a1f923fab58b2f018a40"
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 231 (2020) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides with respect to the Louisiana Health Plan. (gov sig) (RE SEE FISC NOTE OF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB231 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161856)
2. **SB231 Act 313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182505)
3. **SB231 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172283)
4. **SB231 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173176)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1553, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172950)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #990, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169391)
7. **SB231 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177914)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#262) — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#604) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 313. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-29** Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-29** Discharged from the Committee on Ways and Means.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably (9-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 2 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2020-05-14** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** 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/568e24d3-8b5d-4f16-8398-238152bab177`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).