---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Prohibits the assignment of certain benefits"
description: "INSURANCE: Prohibits the assignment of certain benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Louisiana HB 183 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/665353d8-e8bd-4bd7-81f8-5cef39b77931"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244041"
source_hash: "555102255824892345e3d552c2716b43a8ebbf46a2b367ccdbfd0997f9f7efa3"
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 183 (2023) — INSURANCE: Prohibits the assignment of certain benefits

## Version chain

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

1. **HB183 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305106)
2. **HB183 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332522)
3. **HB183 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314288)
4. **HB183 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317113)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1151, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311724)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1448, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313627)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1507, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314242)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1636, Firment, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314712)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #1791, Magee, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315521)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #1824, Firment, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315704)
11. **House Floor Amendment, #1900, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316305)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1704, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322082)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1868, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323207)
14. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2810, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329489)
15. **HB183 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330988)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1058) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#168) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#865) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 364. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-17** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2023.
- **2023-04-25** Notice given.
- **2023-04-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/665353d8-e8bd-4bd7-81f8-5cef39b77931`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).