---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Requires licensure for insurance producers acting on behalf of fraternal benefit societies"
description: "INSURANCE: Requires licensure for insurance producers acting on behalf of fraternal benefit societies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 185"
citation: "Louisiana HB 185 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa5483bb-7629-43b6-b304-da0dae854b14"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237691"
source_hash: "d9e2b48f97c1f2b7f17aa4d9e70651d294585061786610b35884f6dfa6373cf0"
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 185 (2020) — INSURANCE: Requires licensure for insurance producers acting on behalf of fraternal benefit societies

## Version chain

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

1. **HB185 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158640)
2. **HB185 Act 134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181443)
3. **HB185 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169700)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1212, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165888)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1537, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169678)
6. **HB185 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176277)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#344) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 07/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 134. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa5483bb-7629-43b6-b304-da0dae854b14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).