---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. (7/1/18)"
description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. (7/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 153"
citation: "Louisiana SB 153 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan W. Morrish"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79923f48-cd59-4954-8152-d3dbe698c6c8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233472"
source_hash: "f85368996e79c21df90f6eab43202455e6006a59a6517a2b4276d45bfb5ee353"
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 SB 153 (2018) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides relative to the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. (7/1/18)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB153 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1068745)
2. **SB153 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097960)
3. **SB153 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082759)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1841, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082736)
5. **SB153 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093768)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#743) — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#339) — **36–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dan W. Morrish — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-15** Effective date 7/1/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 147. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2018-05-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/03/18.
- **2018-04-19** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-17** Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-04-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-04** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79923f48-cd59-4954-8152-d3dbe698c6c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).