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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 551"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 551 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-03-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca2dfc1-a068-45ef-8fa2-33d05d7587a4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234020"
+source_hash: "1e559a3c3354d483b7e12c1ed71f0d9337c9b726d853dd878f044c588faae03f"
+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 551 (2018) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB551 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072675)
+2. **HB551 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096990)
+3. **HB551 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074987)
+4. **HB551 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077858)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1116, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074677)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #1117, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074516)
+7. **House Committee Amendment, #1201, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074914)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #1377, Huval, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076212)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2355, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084637)
+10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2781, Erdey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087436)
+11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2619, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086265)
+12. **HB551 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093038)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#77) — **89–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#709) — **84–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Huval — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 97. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 84, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/03/18.
+- **2018-04-23** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2018-04-23** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-04-16** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-04-12** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-04-11** Reported with amendments.
+- **2018-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-03-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/18.
+- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (8-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca2dfc1-a068-45ef-8fa2-33d05d7587a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+