---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of genetic testing for various cancer mutations. (1/1/22)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of genetic testing for various cancer mutations. (1/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 84"
citation: "Louisiana SB 84 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97d4920e-577c-4929-9ffd-ea36166ae186"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240103"
source_hash: "e6a000425238ea039f334ba20b003d0845561776a4d9cf88a85ce7f5908e8f01"
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 84 (2021) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of genetic testing for various cancer mutations. (1/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB84 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208106)
2. **SB84 Act 43** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230690)
3. **SB84 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215514)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #697, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214952)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #750, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215298)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #765, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215407)
7. **SB84 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227189)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — **85–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#110) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date 1/1/2022.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 43. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-27** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/25/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-24** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-20** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** 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/97d4920e-577c-4929-9ffd-ea36166ae186`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).