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+type: "Bill"
+title: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Prohibits the use of genetic information relative to life and long-term care insurance"
+description: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Prohibits the use of genetic information relative to life and long-term care insurance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 521"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 521 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aimee Adatto Freeman"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a788285-f106-427b-b60e-4a81a914ce90"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246279"
+source_hash: "45ed9717430ba3232526668e837754eb3bd3d201984c9b88b5db8f3289486b5e"
+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 521 (2024) — INSURANCE/LIFE: Prohibits the use of genetic information relative to life and long-term care insurance
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB521 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351365)
+2. **HB521 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379556)
+3. **HB521 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363944)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2628, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363634)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2653, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363899)
+6. **HB521 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375866)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#501) — **88–6** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#922) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 224. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-16** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/2024.
+- **2024-04-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-09** Reported with amendments (13-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a788285-f106-427b-b60e-4a81a914ce90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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