---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)"
description: "INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Louisiana SB 137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6df84fb1-2b8b-4138-a34e-5f9f7ad4cad4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248490"
source_hash: "6814dbfd799d85240a278f292f90bf543a6ee7911f0f7d9fe9f0ad817b999294"
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 137 (2025) — INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB137 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403835)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2146, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410869)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2824, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414448)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2875, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415037)
5. **SB137 Act 429** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426029)
6. **SB137 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405876)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #524, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405709)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #542, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405845)
9. **SB137 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423771)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#902) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#856) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#52) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 1/1/2026.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 429. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-10** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-23** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-16** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/6df84fb1-2b8b-4138-a34e-5f9f7ad4cad4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).