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type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 839"
citation: "Louisiana HB 839 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy Hebert"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c2632e-86b0-427d-b0c9-c4be8d434356"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246988"
source_hash: "5f79d2fe7b574bebece5121355628649f6eaec08adf1390debf30711a99d4a3c"
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 839 (2024) — INSURANCE/HEALTH: Provides relative to step therapy or fail first protocols (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB839 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360237)
2. **HB839 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381932)
3. **HB839 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366226)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2832, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364877)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2978, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366151)
6. **HB839 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377967)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#667) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1104) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Troy Hebert — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brach Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Braud — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 453. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-08** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/23/2024.
- **2024-04-17** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-16** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c2632e-86b0-427d-b0c9-c4be8d434356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).