republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-635.md

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Bill	INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law	INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 635	Louisiana HB 635 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dennis Bamburg Jr.	12	23	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-16	openstates	ocd-bill/9f7ca490-23f5-4851-a4e0-7df92ca2833f	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248735	a0f508d47185781e549a088a75c0df702e56a4507c031760d3175167191d6697	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 635 (2025) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Establishes the Creating Holistic Options in Coverage for Enterprise and Self-Insurance (CHOICES) Law

Version chain

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

1. HB635 Original (filed) — source
2. HB635 Act 313 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB635 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB635 Re-Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HB635 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1406, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #1970, INS, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Committee Amendment, #2160, H&G, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. House Committee Amendment, #2420, H&G, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. House Floor Amendment, #2699, Bamburg, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2423, Bass, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB635 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#546) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#822) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — 98–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — primary (person)
• Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-16 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-16 Becomes Act No. 313 without the Governor's signature. became-law
• 2025-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-04 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-04 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-03 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-02 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-27 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-21 Rules suspended. Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-19 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-13 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-12 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2025.
• 2025-05-08 Read by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-07 Reported with amendments (10-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-30 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2025-04-29 Reported with amendments (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f7ca490-23f5-4851-a4e0-7df92ca2833f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).