---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to commercial insurance. (1/1/23)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to commercial insurance. (1/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Louisiana SB 168 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21bbd064-7e4a-463c-94d4-e2b8ef1ee7cf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242084"
source_hash: "d4c5c0224636baf78959a034effd90ff89d7f5d413aa7e533de947c0b4563e1c"
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 168 (2022) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to commercial insurance. (1/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB168 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254637)
2. **SB168 Act 259** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288688)
3. **SB168 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267306)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1422, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266705)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1423, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266713)
6. **SB168 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283531)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1185) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#230) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 1/1/2023.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 259. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-24** Notice given.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-16** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/16/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Notice given.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2022.
- **2022-05-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-27** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** 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/21bbd064-7e4a-463c-94d4-e2b8ef1ee7cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).