---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of insurance producers"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of insurance producers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 641"
citation: "Louisiana HB 641 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35128bc9-f3b9-48da-872e-7fc0498456e3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234119"
source_hash: "95352729f50050b743f844483d591d6d2ed45205eb2290836e626a3c57c0dd55"
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 641 (2018) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing and regulation of insurance producers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB641 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073040)
2. **HB641 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092514)
3. **HB641 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074787)
4. **HB641 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1088622)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#472) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#80) — **88–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-01** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-25** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-19** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-11** Reported favorably.
- **2018-03-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `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/35128bc9-f3b9-48da-872e-7fc0498456e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).