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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers"
+description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 65"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 65 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-05"
+last_action: "2021-06-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18e6833b-fbe6-4d92-a657-f1a742d81cca"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239858"
+source_hash: "379a84b3673cad581fbe1d1d96ee73e4e63017eaa3f00147f10f7d54633a271c"
+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 65 (2021) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB65 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202430)
+2. **HB65 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230356)
+3. **HB65 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216322)
+4. **HB65 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227043)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#87) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#427) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael Echols — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
+- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 8. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2021-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably.
+- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
+- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (10-0).
+- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
+- **2021-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
+- **2021-03-05** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18e6833b-fbe6-4d92-a657-f1a742d81cca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+