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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers"
+description: "INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 79"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 79 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-15"
+last_action: "2022-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f7a6a33-e8d1-4771-ab92-12981cc17814"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241607"
+source_hash: "96d8d6958e1a206084c47fbe935d9dc525f57b0555543ea797d98fb7284141e5"
+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 79 (2022) — INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB79 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247678)
+2. **HB79 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280916)
+3. **HB79 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261527)
+4. **HB79 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277835)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#498) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael Echols — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 26. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-10** Rules suspended.
+- **2022-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-04-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-13** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. 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 (10-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
+- **2022-02-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f7a6a33-e8d1-4771-ab92-12981cc17814`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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