---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Updates licensure requirements for persons regulated by the Department of Insurance. (8/1/25)"
description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Updates licensure requirements for persons regulated by the Department of Insurance. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "Louisiana SB 40 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William \"Bill\" Wheat , Jr."]
version_count: 10
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f8c4264-10f4-4bc7-b600-7dd893928930"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248095"
source_hash: "4aa3bea90f32c917870fa6bd66f254d5aac3194c99b88ff2e44d2bf3b31795e7"
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 40 (2025) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Updates licensure requirements for persons regulated by the Department of Insurance. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB40 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400329)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2618, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413708)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2885, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1415185)
4. **SB40 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422211)
5. **SB40 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405877)
6. **SB40 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407976)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #532, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405799)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #541, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405842)
9. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #595, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406325)
10. **SB40 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419082)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#633) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#47) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#409) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 29. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/30/2025. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-23** 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`
- **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`
- **2025-03-31** 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/0f8c4264-10f4-4bc7-b600-7dd893928930`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).