---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to claims of pharmacies and pharmacists"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to claims of pharmacies and pharmacists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 603"
citation: "Louisiana HB 603 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cc24a89-11a3-4370-84be-d4399d1fb93e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246409"
source_hash: "c7f9f0dcc1126ec42210b192b87b71f4d1d2ff3f5d7acc804f99240930b85893"
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 603 (2024) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to claims of pharmacies and pharmacists

## Version chain

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

1. **HB603 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352163)
2. **HB603 Act 658** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382683)
3. **HB603 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366188)
4. **HB603 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367884)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2884, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364997)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2943, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365241)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2975, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365325)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #3096, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366143)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2087, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366395)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2851, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370862)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2858, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370899)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3008, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371606)
13. **HB603 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380101)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#926) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#651) — **85–14** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1503) — **70–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-18** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 658. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 70, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (12-4). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cc24a89-11a3-4370-84be-d4399d1fb93e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).