---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for transparency and compensation practices relative to pharmacy benefit managers (EN +$90,000 SG EX See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for transparency and compensation practices relative to pharmacy benefit managers (EN +$90,000 SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 264"
citation: "Louisiana HB 264 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-01"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac69a08d-80d9-478c-830b-030115b82954"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248195"
source_hash: "444693af3eed7fa84c68dec5b0a951e2d9f0f0f57d223d8822910d79fc01545d"
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 264 (2025) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for transparency and compensation practices relative to pharmacy benefit managers (EN +$90,000 SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB264 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401324)
2. **HB264 Act 474** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427659)
3. **HB264 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415179)
4. **HB264 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416551)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1713, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408609)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1861, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409148)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2534, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412961)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #2789, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414250)
9. **House Committee Amendment, #2836, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414557)
10. **House Committee Amendment, #2887, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415150)
11. **House Committee Amendment, #3153, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415978)
12. **House Committee Amendment, #3225, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416535)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2822, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421473)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2824, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421478)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2863, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421721)
16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2984, Bass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422437)
17. **HB264 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425312)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1285) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#811) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#600) — **86–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)
- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Danny McCormick — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Kerner — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. St. Blanc , III — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 06/20/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 474. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-11** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/12/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Notice given.
- **2025-06-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-11** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-11** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2025-06-10** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/11/2025.
- **2025-06-10** Notice given.
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-06-08** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-21** Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac69a08d-80d9-478c-830b-030115b82954`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).