---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity support services of doulas (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity support services of doulas (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 272"
citation: "Louisiana HB 272 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e600a5fc-bfc7-43c4-9b65-60012b5a2001"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244152"
source_hash: "74ae1b8f9ab6f2d0aeb15fb44861bede8d686b2b5ef79f1f9cdd220c7a9b2a85"
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 272 (2023) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to maternity support services of doulas (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB272 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306729)
2. **HB272 Act 270** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332432)
3. **HB272 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318218)
4. **HB272 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324644)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2100, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1317583)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2169, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318076)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2346, Willard, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318993)
8. **HB272 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330352)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#856) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#857) — **7–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#557) — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 270. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-06-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-06-03** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2023-06-01** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2023-05-31** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2023.
- **2023-05-16** Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-15** Reported favorably (20-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
- **2023-05-02** Reported with amendments (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e600a5fc-bfc7-43c4-9b65-60012b5a2001`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).