---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "Louisiana SB 165 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/498efbfd-38c8-479d-931a-13ddff40ecfd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242081"
source_hash: "e15445c8e68faef8515eae528338b6c75bfc682e0ff9f746391ae14f770c7a1b"
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 165 (2022) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for internal claims and appeals process and external review procedures for health insurance issuers. (1/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB165 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254624)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3595, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275031)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3686, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275501)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2741, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275787)
5. **SB165 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283685)
6. **SB165 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261908)
7. **SB165 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265503)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1179, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263444)
9. **SB165 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280619)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#901) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#123) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#696) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-24** Effective date 1/1/2023.
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 81. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/20/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2022.
- **2022-05-05** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-03** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** 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/498efbfd-38c8-479d-931a-13ddff40ecfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).