---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to bail bond enforcement (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to bail bond enforcement (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Louisiana HB 421 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e79b7c60-f411-4147-9a9e-dca5492980f3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238122"
source_hash: "e0e30908e7a71291ed0fb43afa4e3e210cb32433466b9085cbd79e8740bc93fe"
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 421 (2020) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to bail bond enforcement (EG SEE FISC NOTE SD RV)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB421 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162552)
2. **HB421 Act 267** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182344)
3. **HB421 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172116)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1781, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171335)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1792, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171530)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1835, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171568)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1914, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172091)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2160, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176904)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2142, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176743)
10. **HB421 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178594)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#693) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 267. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-29** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 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 97, nays 0. 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 (11-0).
- **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/e79b7c60-f411-4147-9a9e-dca5492980f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).