---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Requires health insurance coverage for histotripsy procedures (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Requires health insurance coverage for histotripsy procedures (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 622"
citation: "Louisiana HB 622 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Hilferty"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25ae360b-3a8c-4b8b-9811-4963a83829b8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248702"
source_hash: "3db3f435f519890e715b23dca50e1362d480990dc9e472c0424fdf27f449d3b3"
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 622 (2025) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Requires health insurance coverage for histotripsy procedures (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB622 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404607)
2. **HB622 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426012)
3. **HB622 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409986)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1791, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408854)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1951, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409912)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #3052, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415649)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2825, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421488)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2880, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421753)
9. **HB622 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424512)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1147) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#788) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#534) — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Hilferty — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 388. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-09** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/10/2025.
- **2025-06-09** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2025-06-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2025-06-04** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title; recommitted to the Committee on Finance. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2025-04-29** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25ae360b-3a8c-4b8b-9811-4963a83829b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).