---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS/GUARANTY ASSNS: Provides relative to Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Law"
description: "INSURERS/GUARANTY ASSNS: Provides relative to Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 236"
citation: "Louisiana HB 236 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-26"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4cfb5e5-bc31-4788-ac47-0d1c53ef309d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240081"
source_hash: "9866ab810acc8af24a1496cb29f484e5ff9d83c1fac0c4905db878a23ac8aaa0"
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 236 (2021) — INSURERS/GUARANTY ASSNS: Provides relative to Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Law

## Version chain

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

1. **HB236 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207469)
2. **HB236 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230374)
3. **HB236 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216762)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1351, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215159)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1527, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216604)
6. **HB236 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223935)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#330) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Emerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 06/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 19. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-18** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-17** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4cfb5e5-bc31-4788-ac47-0d1c53ef309d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).