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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Provides for group life insurance"
+description: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Provides for group life insurance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 198"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 198 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2022-02-25"
+last_action: "2022-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a38d55-1390-48b2-83cf-cb4d2c9a55fc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241768"
+source_hash: "216847c1897215694f7767a13e57984284b3713aaf9419e42addc5246f444135"
+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 198 (2022) — INSURANCE/LIFE: Provides for group life insurance
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB198 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1251004)
+2. **HB198 Act 114** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286037)
+3. **HB198 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261532)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1825, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269345)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1847, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269404)
+6. **HB198 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281309)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#988) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#454) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#117) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 114. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
+- **2022-05-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2022-05-03** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-04-14** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-13** Reported with amendments.
+- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
+- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (12-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
+- **2022-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4a38d55-1390-48b2-83cf-cb4d2c9a55fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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