---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 65"
citation: "Louisiana HB 65 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-05"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18e6833b-fbe6-4d92-a657-f1a742d81cca"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239858"
source_hash: "379a84b3673cad581fbe1d1d96ee73e4e63017eaa3f00147f10f7d54633a271c"
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 65 (2021) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to mandatory audits of title insurance producers by title insurers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB65 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202430)
2. **HB65 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230356)
3. **HB65 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216322)
4. **HB65 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227043)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#87) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#427) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 8. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-26** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-24** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 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.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-08** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-05** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18e6833b-fbe6-4d92-a657-f1a742d81cca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).