---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIRE/CASUALTY INSURANCE: Requires notices of reinstatement of a casualty policy to go to all relevant parties. (1/1/22)"
description: "FIRE/CASUALTY INSURANCE: Requires notices of reinstatement of a casualty policy to go to all relevant parties. (1/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Louisiana SB 42 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louie Bernard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-15"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e2e4e0b-cab8-4a08-a300-7fcb7c72e49e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239914"
source_hash: "31448518b814e143102f965566e95a2ed74fb98d0dcd38f606526b19c1e1799f"
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 SB 42 (2021) — FIRE/CASUALTY INSURANCE: Requires notices of reinstatement of a casualty policy to go to all relevant parties. (1/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB42 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203903)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2568, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222560)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2839, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224198)
4. **SB42 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235079)
5. **SB42 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215518)
6. **SB42 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230507)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#107) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#627) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#731) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Louie Bernard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2022.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 160. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-06** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2021-05-26** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-12** Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-04-28** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e2e4e0b-cab8-4a08-a300-7fcb7c72e49e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).