---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS/AGENTS: Provides relative to the Bail Bond Apprentice Program"
description: "INSURERS/AGENTS: Provides relative to the Bail Bond Apprentice Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 343"
citation: "Louisiana HB 343 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmond Jordan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8245f73-25cb-4895-b586-ba9aebde0a1d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237936"
source_hash: "e7d70efcc93d0e1773c16013966084b1604b0a83635f76934964cc60fe63eb55"
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 343 (2020) — INSURERS/AGENTS: Provides relative to the Bail Bond Apprentice Program

## Version chain

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

1. **HB343 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1161619)
2. **HB343 Act 139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181448)
3. **HB343 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172061)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1845, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171615)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1902, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172052)
6. **HB343 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177327)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#255) — **57–35** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **32–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edmond Jordan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 139. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 3 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-22** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-21** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 57, nays 35. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/20.
- **2020-05-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments (9-2).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8245f73-25cb-4895-b586-ba9aebde0a1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).