republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-300.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of pregnancy-related and postpartum healthcare services. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of pregnancy-related and postpartum healthcare services. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 300"
citation: "Louisiana SB 300 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f0667f9-42d6-4200-8644-e07403b0243a"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246581"
source_hash: "418b30868ba5a47e1d739db915c5333935e188176c5978b7e5c668c3b1a29ff2"
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 SB 300 (2024) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides for health insurance coverage of pregnancy-related and postpartum healthcare services. (8/1/24) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB300 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352677)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3924, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370208)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4508, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373635)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #4688, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375194)
5. **SB300 Act 762** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382652)
6. **SB300 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361869)
7. **SB300 Re-Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371336)
8. **SB300 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369977)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1479, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361099)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1535, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361816)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2246, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367560)
12. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2615, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369505)
13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2820, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370653)
14. **SB300 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379118)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1195) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- CO-AUTHORS (#491) — **13–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE, SB 300 BY DUPLESSIS (#490) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1321) — **81–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-19** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-19** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 762. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-22** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 15. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-15** Reported with amendments (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-01** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered re-reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered reengrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f0667f9-42d6-4200-8644-e07403b0243a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).