---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides for external review of health insurance issuers. (gov sig)"
description: "INSURERS: Provides for external review of health insurance issuers. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Louisiana SB 82 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart Cathey , Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca457200-e61c-478b-b5bd-93ff22d0babb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240078"
source_hash: "62e6f5a7045fb080f32a1dd31172a051be5c1697fc096435fda1b5395f96389d"
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 82 (2021) — INSURERS: Provides for external review of health insurance issuers. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB82 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1207318)
2. **SB82 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232782)
3. **SB82 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218422)
4. **SB82 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220667)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1200, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218160)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1239, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1218321)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1455, Cathey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219773)
8. **SB82 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229664)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#812) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#234) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2021.
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 89. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2021.
- **2021-05-24** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2021-05-19** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-06** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2021-05-04** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-04-28** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** 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/ca457200-e61c-478b-b5bd-93ff22d0babb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).