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type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for coverage of healthcare services provided through telehealth or telemedicine (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for coverage of healthcare services provided through telehealth or telemedicine (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 530"
citation: "Louisiana HB 530 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-28"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05f020b8-4660-4173-9f8b-738d8068385a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238257"
source_hash: "ee6f1403f01f04bc4699448f5caf0f158d9e4d289d387634561f08e3adfba18f"
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 530 (2020) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides for coverage of healthcare services provided through telehealth or telemedicine (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB530 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1163411)
2. **HB530 Act 276** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182353)
3. **HB530 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169760)
4. **HB530 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175428)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1473, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169345)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1520, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169675)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2380, Echols, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174617)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1140, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170559)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2001, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176188)
10. **HB530 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178575)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#564) — **320** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#292) — **900** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#704) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Michael Echols — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 01/01/2021.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 276. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-22** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2020-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-21** Notice given.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-21** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-20** Notice given.
- **2020-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/20.
- **2020-05-15** Notice given.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05f020b8-4660-4173-9f8b-738d8068385a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).