---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 281"
citation: "Louisiana HB 281 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray Garofalo"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df09756c-8630-41dc-ab23-25ed1dcfc2f5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244161"
source_hash: "61034b9ed5750b2ee9a040e28ae9cd80f3870917d2baebaf23df3d36aeba7785"
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 281 (2023) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **HB281 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306759)
2. **HB281 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332497)
3. **HB281 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314316)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1470, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313753)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1511, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314216)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #987, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310584)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1535, Talbot, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320400)
8. **HB281 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330382)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#868) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#113) — **93–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ray Garofalo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 341. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-06-05** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2023-06-04** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended.
- **2023-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-03** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 8. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/2023.
- **2023-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df09756c-8630-41dc-ab23-25ed1dcfc2f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).