---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/FLOOD: Provides relative to residential flood coverage"
description: "INSURANCE/FLOOD: Provides relative to residential flood coverage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Louisiana HB 577 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92d59ff2-a25d-497b-924d-46b20920470e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240544"
source_hash: "a2a0906d366c9b250ba31e5ea460c1e7e71b1dd5ea130e7f4692e1e553d61e82"
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 577 (2021) — INSURANCE/FLOOD: Provides relative to residential flood coverage

## Version chain

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

1. **HB577 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212048)
2. **HB577 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231960)
3. **HB577 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218093)
4. **HB577 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220808)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1724, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217557)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1767, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217900)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2063, McKnight, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219772)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1758, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222187)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1971, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223843)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2115, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224973)
11. **HB577 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228281)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#400) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#202) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#680) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott McKnight — primary (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date: 01/01/2022.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 77. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-25** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/25/2021.
- **2021-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-18** Rules suspended. 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`
- **2021-05-17** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-13** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/04/2021.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-27** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92d59ff2-a25d-497b-924d-46b20920470e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).