---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides relative to the refund of unearned premiums"
description: "INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides relative to the refund of unearned premiums"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 407"
citation: "Louisiana HB 407 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35c6ba00-a3e0-4c05-a3c5-b27d1b612189"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236225"
source_hash: "7632078f0d0b4120df3e88b875c35748d86df0801e8fdb1c8152fca7e90366ba"
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 407 (2019) — INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides relative to the refund of unearned premiums

## Version chain

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

1. **HB407 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121505)
2. **HB407 Act 225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144088)
3. **HB407 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126886)
4. **HB407 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139589)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#561) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#141) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 225. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 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.
- **2019-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/02/19.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-24** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35c6ba00-a3e0-4c05-a3c5-b27d1b612189`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).