---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 551"
citation: "Louisiana HB 551 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-02"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca2dfc1-a068-45ef-8fa2-33d05d7587a4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234020"
source_hash: "1e559a3c3354d483b7e12c1ed71f0d9337c9b726d853dd878f044c588faae03f"
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 HB 551 (2018) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (REF NO IMPACT See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB551 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072675)
2. **HB551 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1096990)
3. **HB551 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074987)
4. **HB551 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077858)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1116, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074677)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1117, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074516)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1201, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074914)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1377, Huval, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076212)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2355, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084637)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2781, Erdey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087436)
11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2619, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086265)
12. **HB551 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1093038)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#77) — **89–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#478) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#709) — **84–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-10** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 97. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 84, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2018-04-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/03/18.
- **2018-04-23** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2018-04-23** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-04-16** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-04-12** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-04-11** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-03-21** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/21/18.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments (8-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca2dfc1-a068-45ef-8fa2-33d05d7587a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).