---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides for unfair or deceptive trade practices relative to reports of adjusters"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides for unfair or deceptive trade practices relative to reports of adjusters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 520"
citation: "Louisiana HB 520 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/001b4433-a9d6-4184-8068-b9ee000a2aef"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246278"
source_hash: "76696d0c1b1756c713dca55f106769b6b091c5162f87b1295bbe11cd373c076c"
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 520 (2024) — INSURANCE: Provides for unfair or deceptive trade practices relative to reports of adjusters

## Version chain

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

1. **HB520 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351363)
2. **HB520 Act 113** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378134)
3. **HB520 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356954)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1445, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356000)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1584, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356894)
6. **HB520 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374802)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#135) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#750) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-21** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 113. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/27/2024.
- **2024-03-25** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Reported with amendments (16-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/001b4433-a9d6-4184-8068-b9ee000a2aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).