---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS/ALIEN: Provides relative to the procedure following the merger or consolidation of foreign or alien insurers"
description: "INSURERS/ALIEN: Provides relative to the procedure following the merger or consolidation of foreign or alien insurers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 271"
citation: "Louisiana HB 271 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Anders"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-28"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b99ef70f-131d-45df-8383-40371445be01"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236033"
source_hash: "1729e2a1df8a06967dc12e546324123f5215b19be263069179fc08fad3d16dba"
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 271 (2019) — INSURERS/ALIEN: Provides relative to the procedure following the merger or consolidation of foreign or alien insurers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB271 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1120241)
2. **HB271 Act 108** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143301)
3. **HB271 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126883)
4. **HB271 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129981)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1001, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1127338)
6. **HB271 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139093)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#541) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#119) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andy Anders — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date: 01/01/2020.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 108. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-23** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-22** Reported favorably.
- **2019-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-01** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/01/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b99ef70f-131d-45df-8383-40371445be01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).