---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to requirements for approved unauthorized insurers. (1/1/23)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to requirements for approved unauthorized insurers. (1/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 21"
citation: "Louisiana SB 21 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Mills"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85268287-3bb0-4170-9f27-86cce3042873"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241552"
source_hash: "3320f6be0cc5f09720fc2d79060dd0cff2a8fed8436f97194ef582c46cfba034"
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 21 (2022) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Provides relative to requirements for approved unauthorized insurers. (1/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB21 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1246140)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3291, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1273489)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3314, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1273838)
4. **SB21 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283664)
5. **SB21 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261823)
6. **SB21 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279505)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#752) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#589) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#119) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Mills — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-24** Effective date 1/1/2023.
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 74. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-16** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-05-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-27** Reported with amendments (12-0). 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. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** 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/85268287-3bb0-4170-9f27-86cce3042873`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).