---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS: Provides relative to homeowner's insurance claims settlement practices"
description: "INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS: Provides relative to homeowner's insurance claims settlement practices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 585"
citation: "Louisiana HB 585 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Geymann"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 39
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83629f2c-81c7-44e7-a203-687e2c6cc43e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240554"
source_hash: "b1bc0e7c66c078703d92bdeebd5dd498857282a4923b92d66b6281884e72ab4d"
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 585 (2021) — INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS: Provides relative to homeowner's insurance claims settlement practices

## Version chain

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

1. **HB585 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212083)
2. **HB585 Act 344** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235674)
3. **HB585 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220915)
4. **HB585 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225966)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2010, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219574)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2261, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220886)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2928, Geymann, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224540)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2652, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228260)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2656, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228276)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2876, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229638)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2983, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229950)
12. **HB585 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234716)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1257) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1148) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#520) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#871) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brett Geymann — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/11/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-10** Read by title, roll called, yeas 101, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-10** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-10** Notice the Senate discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2021-06-10** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
- **2021-06-10** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee.
- **2021-06-10** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Talbot, Cathey, and Bernard.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2021-06-08** House conferees appointed: Geymann, Brown, and Green.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2021-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2021.
- **2021-05-11** Notice given.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2021.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-04** Reported with amendments (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.
- **2021-04-02** 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/83629f2c-81c7-44e7-a203-687e2c6cc43e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).