---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to past payments of workers' compensation premiums"
description: "WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to past payments of workers' compensation premiums"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 200"
citation: "Louisiana HB 200 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d650e230-03e1-499a-903b-6909a1c10f51"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245806"
source_hash: "f45f4b1d2c1d4d67194d1c437a2accb8de9a005893399dc13d81f2fab523d721"
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 200 (2024) — WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to past payments of workers' compensation premiums

## Version chain

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

1. **HB200 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346925)
2. **HB200 Act 782** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1383079)
3. **HB200 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367366)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1146, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353840)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #3348, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367204)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3564, L&IR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374540)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3600, L&IR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375199)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4268, Seabaugh, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378956)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4400, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380553)
10. **HB200 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381069)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1690) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#703) — **76–19** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1372) — **28–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-25** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-25** Becomes Act No. 782 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2024-06-04** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-30** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/2024.
- **2024-05-30** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-23** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-23** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-15** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-24** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2024.
- **2024-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Reported with amendments (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d650e230-03e1-499a-903b-6909a1c10f51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).