---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides that alteration of a repair estimate without notification to the author of the estimate, supplement, or revision is a fraudulent insurance act. (8/1/25)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides that alteration of a repair estimate without notification to the author of the estimate, supplement, or revision is a fraudulent insurance act. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "Louisiana SB 34 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Luneau"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/803c394d-21f4-4df0-b510-daa5a6c38bd8"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248089"
source_hash: "1df169eed16d565957126313c8bb0678609a7709b90581975711450bf80e720d"
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 34 (2025) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides that alteration of a repair estimate without notification to the author of the estimate, supplement, or revision is a fraudulent insurance act. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB34 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400311)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3554, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418345)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3627, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418846)
4. **SB34 Act 406** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425936)
5. **SB34 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412407)
6. **SB34 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413920)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1263, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411371)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1391, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412372)
9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1589, Luneau, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413727)
10. **SB34 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1423778)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#211) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#846) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#846) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Luneau — primary (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-20** Effective date 7/1/2026.
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 406. `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 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-06-02** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-28** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-12** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-08** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-07** 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`
- **2025-03-31** 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/803c394d-21f4-4df0-b510-daa5a6c38bd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).