---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the unauthorized practice of public adjusting and fraudulent insurance acts by public adjusters. (7/1/19)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the unauthorized practice of public adjusting and fraudulent insurance acts by public adjusters. (7/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Louisiana SB 103 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Smith, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e90d119d-e784-49ae-84ae-b3f40df01859"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235995"
source_hash: "2a5058c03acecf9d77b808bbe8d9fca78e043f1a9754b1f1349574f4b992b3da"
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 103 (2019) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides relative to the unauthorized practice of public adjusting and fraudulent insurance acts by public adjusters. (7/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB103 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1119673)
2. **SB103 Act 83** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1143177)
3. **SB103 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124880)
4. **SB103 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137764)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#86) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#550) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-04** Effective date 7/1/2019.
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 83. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-09** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-08** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-07** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** 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/e90d119d-e784-49ae-84ae-b3f40df01859`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).