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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)"
+description: "LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 131"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 131 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert Mills"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-31"
+last_action: "2021-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a451783-27d5-460a-a00e-578022d512b9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240242"
+source_hash: "0de5957f4ae3a49f8b8a89a7479b56ba4140e29d7c06fbf17fb16fa3097163d3"
+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 131 (2021) — LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB131 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1209873)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2653, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223135)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2829, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224126)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #2900, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224336)
+5. **SB131 Act 225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235362)
+6. **SB131 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215505)
+7. **SB131 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217505)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #733, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215232)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #766, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215410)
+10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #985, Mills, Robert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217218)
+11. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #817, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215734)
+12. **SB131 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230560)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#647) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert Mills — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2021.
+- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 225. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2021-06-03** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
+- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2021-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2021-04-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2021-04-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2021-04-20** Reported with amendments.
+- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** 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/8a451783-27d5-460a-a00e-578022d512b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+