---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to denials of provider claims and prior authorization requests by Medicaid managed care organizations (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to denials of provider claims and prior authorization requests by Medicaid managed care organizations (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 424"
citation: "Louisiana HB 424 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Stagni"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80982756-1477-4989-8630-574e11d23637"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236244"
source_hash: "063102606374444c4438ab126ec41c04d57c864145bd210c5f87ce2a28c88c2e"
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 424 (2019) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to denials of provider claims and prior authorization requests by Medicaid managed care organizations (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB424 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121649)
2. **HB424 Act 330** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144259)
3. **HB424 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127394)
4. **HB424 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132216)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1807, Stagni, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128943)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1106, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127860)
7. **HB424 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138397)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#468) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joe Stagni — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 330. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-16** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-07** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/19.
- **2019-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/80982756-1477-4989-8630-574e11d23637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).