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Louisiana 2026

HB 222

MEDICAID: Requires Medicaid to cover dental procedures for certain Medicaid enrollees (EN +$784,370 GF EX See Note)

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Session
2026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2026-02-19 00:00:00

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 629.

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  2. Effective date: 08/01/2026.

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

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  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

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  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

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  9. Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

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  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

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  11. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

  12. Reported favorably.

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  13. Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.

  14. Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.

  15. Reported with amendments.

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  16. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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  17. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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  18. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

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  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2026.

  20. Read by title, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

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  21. Reported favorably (13-0).

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  22. Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.

  23. Reported favorably (8-0).

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  24. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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  25. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/20/2026.

  26. Prefiled.

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  27. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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