---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the adjustment of residential claims. (1/1/23)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the adjustment of residential claims. (1/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 198"
citation: "Louisiana SB 198 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/209b2db1-0dea-49fe-b8de-2b7cd3ac38ec"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242139"
source_hash: "39559e6a09300f6937d37c3733a594c141579752f27aee6c15e4537660da4630"
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 198 (2022) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the adjustment of residential claims. (1/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB198 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255325)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3599, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275012)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3764, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275801)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #3802, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276121)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #4647, Firment, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280092)
6. **SB198 Act 263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288692)
7. **SB198 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261804)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #787, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261458)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #927, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261643)
10. **SB198 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281976)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#738) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#959) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#124) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date 8/1/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 263. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-25** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-24** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-18** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/18/2022.
- **2022-05-09** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** 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`
- **2022-03-03** 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/209b2db1-0dea-49fe-b8de-2b7cd3ac38ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).