---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for an extension for premiums due for homeowners' policies. (8/1/25)"
description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for an extension for premiums due for homeowners' policies. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 345"
citation: "Louisiana SB 345 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Ashford Barrow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7929a0ee-2c4b-4d5f-81b4-ff42ffeb356c"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246626"
source_hash: "7036ca870aa299f7981d1d9f11589b2f83e13320d20fb58fd322cc2c83c05555"
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 345 (2024) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for an extension for premiums due for homeowners' policies. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB345 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352768)
2. **SB345 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379387)
3. **SB345 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361823)
4. **SB345 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364190)
5. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1785, Barrow, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363789)
6. **SB345 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375164)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#261) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1077) — **85–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Regina Ashford Barrow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date 1/1/2025.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 175. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 85, 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, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-04-24** Reported favorably (16-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-04-09** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-03** 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/7929a0ee-2c4b-4d5f-81b4-ff42ffeb356c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).