---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Repeals requirements for the Department of Insurance to maintain a central database for contact information on life insurance policies in force in the state"
description: "INSURANCE/LIFE: Repeals requirements for the Department of Insurance to maintain a central database for contact information on life insurance policies in force in the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 436"
citation: "Louisiana HB 436 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Reich Freiberg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a817fdb-f623-4681-9349-4afaad1da599"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240368"
source_hash: "0ee60b56d2e1e03bf28d912ebc40047282a829a4df74755dd50ea00415f7d452"
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 436 (2021) — INSURANCE/LIFE: Repeals requirements for the Department of Insurance to maintain a central database for contact information on life insurance policies in force in the state

## Version chain

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

1. **HB436 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211074)
2. **HB436 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230390)
3. **HB436 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216404)
4. **HB436 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224150)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#333) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#118) — **102–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barbara Reich Freiberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 07/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 28. `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 33 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 102, nays 1. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a817fdb-f623-4681-9349-4afaad1da599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).