---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to third-party liability requirements arising for prior authorizations and state claim inquiries"
description: "MEDICAID: Provides relative to third-party liability requirements arising for prior authorizations and state claim inquiries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 655"
citation: "Louisiana HB 655 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a1dffbb-734b-425f-b232-e269e86baa89"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246461"
source_hash: "8ca4f56403822da64879b6050b94c2c4f4d016258a157647cfd5fd33e7233a98"
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 655 (2024) — MEDICAID: Provides relative to third-party liability requirements arising for prior authorizations and state claim inquiries

## Version chain

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

1. **HB655 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352268)
2. **HB655 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382019)
3. **HB655 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358779)
4. **HB655 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375699)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#876) — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dustin Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 486. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported favorably (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. `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/3a1dffbb-734b-425f-b232-e269e86baa89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).