---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for certain claims settlement practices"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for certain claims settlement practices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 591"
citation: "Louisiana HB 591 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf9cb204-1d58-4fa2-93a5-cbe4ec41a24c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240560"
source_hash: "5ee3ee05f28748871cdb6ee3929ef7b1b854e66873de4dd2d5398b4ea10c98e1"
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 591 (2021) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for certain claims settlement practices

## Version chain

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

1. **HB591 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1212098)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4009, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233428)
3. **HB591 Act 345** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235675)
4. **HB591 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220941)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2020, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220289)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2254, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220919)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2277, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226141)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2283, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226175)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3506, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232172)
10. **HB591 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234622)

## Votes

- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1238) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#384) — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1131) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#1110) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#961) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — 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. 345. `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** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-06-10** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2021-06-10** Rules suspended.
- **2021-06-10** Conference Committee report received.
- **2021-06-09** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2021-06-09** Senate conference committee members appointed: Talbot, Luneau, and Johns.
- **2021-06-09** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2021-06-08** House conferees appointed: Firment, Brown, and Mike Johnson.
- **2021-06-08** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** 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`
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2021-06-06** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2021-05-24** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-20** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-19** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **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 (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/bf9cb204-1d58-4fa2-93a5-cbe4ec41a24c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).