---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides relative to health insurance coverage modifications and unfair or deceptive practices. (8/1/21)"
description: "INSURERS: Provides relative to health insurance coverage modifications and unfair or deceptive practices. (8/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "Louisiana SB 181 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/045bd615-8e97-4a59-be6d-ef073b4c26f4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240387"
source_hash: "6e276db6d505e6bce8085e50e7152af51336b73cdbd15fc47112bc8edb9c8104"
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 181 (2021) — INSURERS: Provides relative to health insurance coverage modifications and unfair or deceptive practices. (8/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB181 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211154)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2690, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223224)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2802, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224177)
4. **SB181 Act 217** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235354)
5. **SB181 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215477)
6. **SB181 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218721)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1059, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217401)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1141, Boudreaux, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217812)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #823, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215748)
10. **SB181 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230576)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#657) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#741) — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 217. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** 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/045bd615-8e97-4a59-be6d-ef073b4c26f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).