republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2023/hb-468.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to utilization review standards and approval procedures for healthcare service claims submitted by healthcare providers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to utilization review standards and approval procedures for healthcare service claims submitted by healthcare providers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 468"
citation: "Louisiana HB 468 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/150cb260-d417-459a-ade2-a45e59f6d5a6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244424"
source_hash: "8ed914f116ad0a259f2c95141c516b8d14b42decd84230458055a4ed14708736"
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 468 (2023) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to utilization review standards and approval procedures for healthcare service claims submitted by healthcare providers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB468 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309116)
2. **HB468 Act 312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332465)
3. **HB468 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316208)
4. **HB468 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321086)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1738, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315345)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1876, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316196)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2686, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320814)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2713, Frieman, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320917)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2715, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320892)
10. **House Floor Amendment, #2724, Jordan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320939)
11. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1004, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316574)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1755, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322250)
13. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1806, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322611)
14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1809, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322688)
15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1836, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322983)
16. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1863, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323095)
17. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1864, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323098)
18. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1866, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323104)
19. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1875, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323285)
20. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2112, Talbot, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325114)
21. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2355, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326655)
22. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1968, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1323970)
23. **HB468 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331321)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 2724 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#307) — **40–57** (fail) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2355 BY SMITH, HB 468 BY PRESSLY (#738) — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1126) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#309) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2715 BY ECHOLS, MOTION TO ADOPT (#308) — **74–20** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2713 BY FRIEMAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#306) — **21–76** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#739) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart J. Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Tanner Magee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-13** Effective date: 01/01/2024.
- **2023-06-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 312. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-07** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-06-06** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2023.
- **2023-06-06** Notice given.
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-06-05** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-17** Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-10** Called from the calendar.
- **2023-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2023.
- **2023-05-09** Notice given.
- **2023-05-09** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2023-05-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/09/2023.
- **2023-04-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Reported with amendments (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/150cb260-d417-459a-ade2-a45e59f6d5a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).