---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to administrative hearings involving actions of the commissioner of insurance"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to administrative hearings involving actions of the commissioner of insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 615"
citation: "Louisiana HB 615 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Jordan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/341422f7-db1c-4449-bf7a-91e2ad11702b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234093"
source_hash: "9b93bccc6e9de8bff24b4edd83992379d4608a72b7d33e80e5dfb634a3a14fd6"
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 615 (2018) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to administrative hearings involving actions of the commissioner of insurance

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB615 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073010)
2. **HB615 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097975)
3. **HB615 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080282)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1817, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079386)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1952, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080229)
6. **HB615 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094595)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#880) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#278) — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edmond Jordan — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 01/01/2019.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 171. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-02** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/18.
- **2018-03-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-28** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/341422f7-db1c-4449-bf7a-91e2ad11702b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).