---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for the regulation of pharmacy services administrative organizations"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for the regulation of pharmacy services administrative organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Louisiana HB 244 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b652aef-774c-4593-b6a6-bd50f9f69595"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240089"
source_hash: "45d909974a45281b84de09a57fc318675faa59fdc18d692dc52cd91a7bf6f514"
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 244 (2021) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for the regulation of pharmacy services administrative organizations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB244 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207477)
2. **HB244 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235203)
3. **HB244 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218460)
4. **HB244 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221713)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1784, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218125)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1826, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218403)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2049, Turner, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219827)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2263, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226077)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2281, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226166)
10. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2511, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227408)
11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2438, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226952)
12. **HB244 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230262)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#888) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#276) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#512) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 192. `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 100, 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** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-04** Notice given.
- **2021-05-04** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-28** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **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.
- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b652aef-774c-4593-b6a6-bd50f9f69595`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).