---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing of third party administrators"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing of third party administrators"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 644"
citation: "Louisiana HB 644 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vincent J. Pierre"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e23f2073-1514-4578-98b7-dc2a3e1156b8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234143"
source_hash: "9164dcc4226a52cf24da5c45b5d27b2e04c11633478bfc294604b799bf8fdf50"
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 644 (2018) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to the licensing of third party administrators

## Version chain

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

1. **HB644 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1073180)
2. **HB644 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096995)
3. **HB644 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077673)
4. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2617, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086263)
5. **HB644 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093022)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#708) — **81–1** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#188) — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#473) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Vincent J. Pierre — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 101. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 81, nays 1, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/03/18.
- **2018-04-19** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-04-19** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-16** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2018-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/18.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-21** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **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/e23f2073-1514-4578-98b7-dc2a3e1156b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).