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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Creates an exemption for members of the armed services to avoid a penalty for lapse of automobile coverage. (8/1/20)"
+description: "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Creates an exemption for members of the armed services to avoid a penalty for lapse of automobile coverage. (8/1/20)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 65"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 65 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-20"
+last_action: "2020-06-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd7aadbc-8d8f-4d51-af0a-1b96fe562236"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237564"
+source_hash: "b91164e2b5317452a30855f8f47c2cdcae52db9f18285c6043140e44f7c20ec4"
+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 65 (2020) — AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Creates an exemption for members of the armed services to avoid a penalty for lapse of automobile coverage. (8/1/20)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB65 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156719)
+2. **SB65 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180264)
+3. **SB65 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170342)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #946, THPW, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170086)
+5. **SB65 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176610)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CO-AUTHORS (#161) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#483) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#160) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
+- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Buddy Mincey — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Tarver — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Rogers Pope — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick McMath — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Ward, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronnie Johns — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharon Hewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy Carter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-05** Effective date 8/1/2020.
+- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 52. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
+- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-07** 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 Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd7aadbc-8d8f-4d51-af0a-1b96fe562236`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+