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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)"
+description: "INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 197"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 197 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wesley Bishop"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c218d10d-1f9f-4346-9f03-d545e4bb71e9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236331"
+source_hash: "022d3ea6a2730aeba50dd6f1d689bd616e9486b7f2ac4476f11250b91bc0e5a9"
+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 197 (2019) — INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB197 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122074)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2651, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133914)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2712, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134352)
+4. **SB197 Act 194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143901)
+5. **SB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129630)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1326, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129583)
+7. **SB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139768)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR (#607) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#664) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#254) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wesley Bishop — primary (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 194. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2019-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
+- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** 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/c218d10d-1f9f-4346-9f03-d545e4bb71e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+