---
type: "Bill"
title: "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Provides for the Louisiana Automotive Insurance Plan. (1/1/21)"
description: "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Provides for the Louisiana Automotive Insurance Plan. (1/1/21)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 71"
citation: "Louisiana SB 71 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e04414ec-f4a5-419e-9645-ea05d53bee27"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237570"
source_hash: "a66a80e7009829aaf7d50f550247043a67be5046b7691f6e9aac1fd6787842c8"
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 71 (2020) — AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: Provides for the Louisiana Automotive Insurance Plan. (1/1/21)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB71 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1156730)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2373, Green, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174531)
3. **SB71 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180267)
4. **SB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169937)
5. **SB71 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171280)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #922, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169493)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1207, Mills, Fred, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170774)
8. **SB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177260)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#96) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#427) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#484) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Effective date 1/1/2021.
- **2020-06-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 53. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** 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/e04414ec-f4a5-419e-9645-ea05d53bee27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).