---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage for continuous glucose monitors. (8/1/22)"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage for continuous glucose monitors. (8/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "Louisiana SB 257 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fred H. Mills, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf84f7df-3cae-4094-b12b-8291fe803d60"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242233"
source_hash: "cfabe7e4146546ade43a69c45ea0c79692e262cf092e6234dda71c09ae1d7011"
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 SB 257 (2022) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to Medicaid coverage for continuous glucose monitors. (8/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB257 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255830)
2. **SB257 Act 241** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286565)
3. **SB257 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267179)
4. **SB257 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283547)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1172) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#208) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — primary (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-31** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-05-31** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 241. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-11** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-06** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf84f7df-3cae-4094-b12b-8291fe803d60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).