---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Requires an applicant or an existing insured regarding a homeowner's insurance policy to disclose to their insurer the property is to be used or is being used as a group home. (gov sig)"
description: "INSURANCE POLICIES: Requires an applicant or an existing insured regarding a homeowner's insurance policy to disclose to their insurer the property is to be used or is being used as a group home. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 344"
citation: "Louisiana SB 344 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aacca3d1-7647-4390-a12b-c5cbbde889af"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246625"
source_hash: "318b2b3d68aef4e511dbcac139ce2639dd057d8e280d60a97c48f1ac4c153552"
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 344 (2024) — INSURANCE POLICIES: Requires an applicant or an existing insured regarding a homeowner's insurance policy to disclose to their insurer the property is to be used or is being used as a group home. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB344 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352766)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3444, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367539)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3671, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369072)
4. **SB344 Act 397** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380843)
5. **SB344 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356197)
6. **SB344 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376694)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#1017) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#159) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1076) — **84–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date 5/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 397. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 84, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
- **2024-04-29** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported with amendments (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-03-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 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/aacca3d1-7647-4390-a12b-c5cbbde889af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).