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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURERS: Provides relative to unfair or deceptive methods, acts, and practices in the business of personal and commercial lines of insurance. (8/1/20)"
+description: "INSURERS: Provides relative to unfair or deceptive methods, acts, and practices in the business of personal and commercial lines of insurance. (8/1/20)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 373"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 373 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Heather Cloud"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-02-28"
+last_action: "2020-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c3df12-6162-47bd-a37e-d38fab9db1e4"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238457"
+source_hash: "546b9fbbd1395c014d3c14d9d4ff2fe0bd3328f6c03e485182f71dd16787e5fc"
+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 373 (2020) — INSURERS: Provides relative to unfair or deceptive methods, acts, and practices in the business of personal and commercial lines of insurance. (8/1/20)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB373 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1164214)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2230, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173909)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2327, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174346)
+4. **SB373 Act 351** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182603)
+5. **SB373 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172272)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1361, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171738)
+7. **SB373 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178007)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#225) — **16–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#224) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#504) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#614) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Heather Cloud — primary (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2020.
+- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 351. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
+- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2020-05-15** Read by title, passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-14** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** 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/73c3df12-6162-47bd-a37e-d38fab9db1e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+