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type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Health Care Consumer Billing and Disclosure Protection Act. (8/1/20)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Health Care Consumer Billing and Disclosure Protection Act. (8/1/20)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "Louisiana SB 271 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie Johns"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a2702a8-473c-482a-80b5-54a1a39c4ff0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238043"
source_hash: "3b4390909a99a55a426b4221eef445513d34d45f2b3242dea9c5743fd7ecec20"
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 SB 271 (2020) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Health Care Consumer Billing and Disclosure Protection Act. (8/1/20)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB271 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162155)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2232, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173882)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2283, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174313)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #2714, Farnum, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176525)
5. **SB271 Act 315** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182511)
6. **SB271 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172213)
7. **SB271 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172935)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1537, Johns, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172760)
9. **SB271 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178011)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#500) — **960** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#611) — **360** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#223) — **320** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ronnie Johns — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 315. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-14** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a2702a8-473c-482a-80b5-54a1a39c4ff0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).