---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Prohibits certain claims fees assessed by health insurers or pharmacy benefit managers"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Prohibits certain claims fees assessed by health insurers or pharmacy benefit managers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Louisiana HB 242 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["H. Bernard LeBas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99d5d788-cfc3-4296-b879-276dc4950e8e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235970"
source_hash: "d96ebf8404e1c378ea725f197e88682ea893cbeb4fe6afe6b5bb1749e6de56d4"
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 242 (2019) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Prohibits certain claims fees assessed by health insurers or pharmacy benefit managers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB242 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119473)
2. **HB242 Act 105** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143286)
3. **HB242 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129786)
4. **HB242 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139087)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#280) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#540) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- H. Bernard LeBas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 06/04/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 105. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99d5d788-cfc3-4296-b879-276dc4950e8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).