---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers"
description: "INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 79"
citation: "Louisiana HB 79 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Echols"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f7a6a33-e8d1-4771-ab92-12981cc17814"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241607"
source_hash: "96d8d6958e1a206084c47fbe935d9dc525f57b0555543ea797d98fb7284141e5"
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 79 (2022) — INSURERS: Provides for the minimum number of meetings for the boards of directors of certain captive insurers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB79 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1247678)
2. **HB79 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280916)
3. **HB79 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261527)
4. **HB79 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277835)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#103) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#498) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## 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. 26. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Rules suspended.
- **2022-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-13** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/18/2022.
- **2022-02-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f7a6a33-e8d1-4771-ab92-12981cc17814`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).