republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-454.md

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Bill	MEDICAID: Requires Medicaid coverage for certain doula services (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	MEDICAID: Requires Medicaid coverage for certain doula services (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 454	Louisiana HB 454 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dustin Miller	6	30	4	2025-04-04	2025-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/36119bba-6cad-4940-9ab4-c88487d381dc	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248461	6d01fcf7c2e31d1cd7a8b7bacae8f311f38642a2c12c9bca0aab6df907a23e6b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 454 (2025) — MEDICAID: Requires Medicaid coverage for certain doula services (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Version chain

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

1. HB454 Original (filed) — source
2. HB454 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB454 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Amendment, #2241, H&W, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Committee Amendment, #2361, H&W, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. HB454 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#880) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#598) — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#469) — 83–13 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#599) — 9–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Dustin Miller — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Annie Spell — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
• Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
• Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
• Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
• Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
• Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
• Terry Landry Jr — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-10 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 228. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-09 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-08 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-04 Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-03 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
• 2025-06-03 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-02 The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-06-01 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-29 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-29 Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
• 2025-05-29 Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
• 2025-05-29 Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
• 2025-05-28 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-20 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-19 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-19 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 13. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-19 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-05-14 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2025.
• 2025-05-14 Notice given.
• 2025-05-14 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-05-13 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/2025.
• 2025-05-12 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-12 Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
• 2025-04-23 Reported favorably (13-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36119bba-6cad-4940-9ab4-c88487d381dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).