---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides for certain insurance premium discounts"
description: "INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides for certain insurance premium discounts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 294"
citation: "Louisiana HB 294 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Willard"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-28"
last_action: "2023-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a264ce5-4034-401d-88b7-edaf7190818b"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244174"
source_hash: "57588d9cd136332b20810cb7c869007312810bc52ea9866d1d8badfa2bf8f849"
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 294 (2023) — INSURANCE/PROPERTY: Provides for certain insurance premium discounts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB294 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306928)
2. **HB294 Act 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325704)
3. **HB294 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314320)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1469, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313746)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1513, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314283)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #989, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310586)
7. **HB294 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321150)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#116) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#281) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew Willard — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Hilferty — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 1. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **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 97, nays 1. 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/2a264ce5-4034-401d-88b7-edaf7190818b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).