---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Requires health coverage plans to include alternative imaging methods to mammography. (gov sig)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Requires health coverage plans to include alternative imaging methods to mammography. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 338"
citation: "Louisiana SB 338 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Boudreaux"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/102453a1-914f-4150-8e34-53ec947d2339"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246619"
source_hash: "f3304d0c2277def296edd1a9c4d7509e73d32e6b0dbdc92a7f475d78674dbb69"
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 338 (2024) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Requires health coverage plans to include alternative imaging methods to mammography. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB338 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352754)
2. **SB338 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379384)
3. **SB338 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354157)
4. **SB338 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356438)
5. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #788, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354466)
6. **SB338 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374584)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#71) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#72) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1066) — **80–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald Boudreaux — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date 5/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 174. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-14** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 11. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-20** 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`
- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-13** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/102453a1-914f-4150-8e34-53ec947d2339`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).