---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity services of midwives and doulas (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity services of midwives and doulas (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 190"
citation: "Louisiana HB 190 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-24"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cafd7e16-43c5-4a4c-ba93-70f5242bac20"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240024"
source_hash: "f8fb872bd3f84d70905a803930b546e10054cab77c08c4207f0c7fdbbe7da97d"
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 190 (2021) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity services of midwives and doulas (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB190 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206271)
2. **HB190 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235115)
3. **HB190 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221678)
4. **HB190 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224315)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2171, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220194)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2320, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221580)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2847, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224039)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2238, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225940)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2279, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226161)
10. **HB190 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230315)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#886) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#511) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#424) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 182. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-26** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-20** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-12** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-10** Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cafd7e16-43c5-4a4c-ba93-70f5242bac20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).