---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT: Extends the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the insurance fraud prevention act. (7/1/19)"
description: "PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT: Extends the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the insurance fraud prevention act. (7/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 199"
citation: "Louisiana SB 199 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John R. Smith"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d50fdad-2b96-4e79-ba62-f76707a41d9c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=236368"
source_hash: "e76e8257d2287c4a8412c6cc95ab21cf1adbe496bb35c9ae392af45708dad9e8"
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 199 (2019) — PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT: Extends the insurance fraud investigation unit within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the insurance fraud prevention act. (7/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB199 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1122113)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2518, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1133195)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2808, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1134972)
4. **SB199 Act 195** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143902)
5. **SB199 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124878)
6. **SB199 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1140579)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#105) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#680) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#670) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John R. Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Effective date 7/1/2019.
- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 195. `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.
- **2019-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-31** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2019-05-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
- **2019-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-16** Reported with amendments (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **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/9d50fdad-2b96-4e79-ba62-f76707a41d9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).