---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to health coverage plan benefits for physical therapy services delivered via telehealth (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to health coverage plan benefits for physical therapy services delivered via telehealth (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 304"
citation: "Louisiana HB 304 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Frieman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d95f3ab8-f796-440e-9a24-da9b1c086899"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241930"
source_hash: "e337526cdc5156e1c9ba9881efb9f061f60836051f8e56c9018f6fad5af843b2"
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 304 (2022) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to health coverage plan benefits for physical therapy services delivered via telehealth (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB304 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253754)
2. **HB304 Act 144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286078)
3. **HB304 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268910)
4. **HB304 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271916)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2394, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268627)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2424, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268881)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2835, Frieman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271115)
8. **HB304 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280357)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#667) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#393) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Frieman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 144. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2022.
- **2022-04-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-12** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d95f3ab8-f796-440e-9a24-da9b1c086899`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).