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type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 429"
citation: "Louisiana HB 429 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Cromer"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb397dd5-7683-4ca0-8def-425369a6ef09"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233855"
source_hash: "f265236593b7fe4012c83242a9cb065fc7415c4b1bbf3cc39b38914bbc9b3bc4"
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 429 (2018) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to denial of claims for dental services
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB429 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071674)
2. **HB429 Act 208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099064)
3. **HB429 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082930)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2187, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082645)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2189, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082644)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2234, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082839)
7. **HB429 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094018)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **300** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#449) — **870** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Greg Cromer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 01/01/2019.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 208. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-25** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2018-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/18.
- **2018-04-11** Notice given.
- **2018-04-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/18.
- **2018-04-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-04** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb397dd5-7683-4ca0-8def-425369a6ef09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).