---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)"
description: "INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "Louisiana SB 197 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wesley Bishop"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c218d10d-1f9f-4346-9f03-d545e4bb71e9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236331"
source_hash: "022d3ea6a2730aeba50dd6f1d689bd616e9486b7f2ac4476f11250b91bc0e5a9"
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 197 (2019) — INSURERS: Provides for disclosures in homeowners' insurance policies. (See Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB197 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122074)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2651, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133914)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2712, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134352)
4. **SB197 Act 194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143901)
5. **SB197 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129630)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1326, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129583)
7. **SB197 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139768)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#607) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#664) — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#254) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wesley Bishop — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 194. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-30** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-29** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 88, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-06** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-01** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** 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/c218d10d-1f9f-4346-9f03-d545e4bb71e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).