---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides relative to the workers' compensation claims office requirement for insurers issuing such policies in Louisiana"
description: "INSURERS: Provides relative to the workers' compensation claims office requirement for insurers issuing such policies in Louisiana"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 74"
citation: "Louisiana HB 74 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Frieman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-08"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e17f46d7-a7f4-4978-93ba-504bf6429c85"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239869"
source_hash: "c6bf1f8aff67050571e4a92ee29f1e8598d72d1d03e6a4cecc71310f17eba48a"
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 74 (2021) — INSURERS: Provides relative to the workers' compensation claims office requirement for insurers issuing such policies in Louisiana

## Version chain

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

1. **HB74 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1202702)
2. **HB74 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235443)
3. **HB74 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216630)
4. **HB74 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218139)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1365, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215284)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1511, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216547)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1682, Carter, Robby, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217211)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1568, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220721)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1645, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221169)
10. **HB74 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230235)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#428) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#873) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#100) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Frieman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 255. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/01/2021.
- **2021-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-20** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-05** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported with amendments (9-3).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-09** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e17f46d7-a7f4-4978-93ba-504bf6429c85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).