---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/GROUP-SHERIFFS: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office"
description: "INSURANCE/GROUP-SHERIFFS: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 6"
citation: "Louisiana HB 6 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec4b2f74-f9ab-4419-a024-1afd73ad6b1d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241438"
source_hash: "1ea0ef2a798e322ace6696adf6ed2728603d66b941d703323f1a6bbebfde7a04"
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 6 (2022) — INSURANCE/GROUP-SHERIFFS: Creates an Employee Insurance Fund for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office

## Version chain

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

1. **HB6 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1243436)
2. **HB6 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280888)
3. **HB6 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267767)
4. **HB6 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278432)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#516) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#302) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Michael Echols — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2022.
- **2022-04-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-07** Reported favorably (8-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/21/2022.
- **2022-01-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec4b2f74-f9ab-4419-a024-1afd73ad6b1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).