---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to group health insurance renewals"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to group health insurance renewals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 408"
citation: "Louisiana HB 408 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paula Davis"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/831454e4-0e92-49b5-9a36-c0b7b1ecd6b9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236226"
source_hash: "7088596130bec55f4a30bf092b850582bdde3fc5652f94d025bf89af513e098a"
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 408 (2019) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to group health insurance renewals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB408 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121508)
2. **HB408 Act 112** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143293)
3. **HB408 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130182)
4. **HB408 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134181)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1726, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129009)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1952, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130028)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2107, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133095)
8. **HB408 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139590)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#310) — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#562) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Paula Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 112. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 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.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/831454e4-0e92-49b5-9a36-c0b7b1ecd6b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).