---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for the payment of health insurance claims prior to the credentialing of a healthcare provider"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for the payment of health insurance claims prior to the credentialing of a healthcare provider"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 595"
citation: "Louisiana HB 595 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbeb4026-d45b-4b6e-bcc8-401e7d6fbd26"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240569"
source_hash: "55b5c5dc6ff35edb7245c4a1bb064341e6cc7dc750a32228efd3fe9615f84519"
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 595 (2021) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for the payment of health insurance claims prior to the credentialing of a healthcare provider

## Version chain

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

1. **HB595 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212136)
2. **HB595 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231964)
3. **HB595 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216613)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1497, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216315)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1541, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216573)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1856, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222733)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1972, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223845)
8. **HB595 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228124)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#681) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#401) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#151) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 79. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Notice given.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbeb4026-d45b-4b6e-bcc8-401e7d6fbd26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).