---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides for insureds to have the option to choose a particular motor vehicle repair shop"
description: "INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides for insureds to have the option to choose a particular motor vehicle repair shop"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 411"
citation: "Louisiana HB 411 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry Landry"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-29"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/966ee88d-3ac9-46e3-a861-0157e1ab5825"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236229"
source_hash: "df8f0b0cd58b65fa2fb84c568b79b5ced4e438e03a392b3cc8bb526ae748b2e3"
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 411 (2019) — INSURANCE/AUTOMOBILE: Provides for insureds to have the option to choose a particular motor vehicle repair shop

## Version chain

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

1. **HB411 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1121512)
2. **HB411 Act 317** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144247)
3. **HB411 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130184)
4. **HB411 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134123)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1828, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129010)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1975, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129995)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1517, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130671)
8. **HB411 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141113)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#742) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#297) — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Terry Landry — primary (person)
- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara Norton — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles R. "Bubba" Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- H. Bernard LeBas — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- John Bagneris — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Robert E. Billiot — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Steven E. Pylant — cosponsor (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. 317. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-06-02** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 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.
- **2019-05-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/14/19.
- **2019-05-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments (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/966ee88d-3ac9-46e3-a861-0157e1ab5825`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).