---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to insurance fraud"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to insurance fraud"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 651"
citation: "Louisiana HB 651 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacob Braud"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3b1c6aa-e0b4-4d99-870c-bfb1fd635e4e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246457"
source_hash: "f4065efb4460fbc708048f3187cbcf8625e0014c08190a953b722fbac8e5b7f1"
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 651 (2024) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to insurance fraud

## Version chain

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

1. **HB651 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352277)
2. **HB651 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380536)
3. **HB651 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362032)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1583, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356714)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2211, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361187)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2283, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361968)
7. **HB651 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373224)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#356) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#608) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jacob Braud — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 389. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-14** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-13** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-09** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-29** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments (15-0). `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/c3b1c6aa-e0b4-4d99-870c-bfb1fd635e4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).