---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to credit for reinsurance"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to credit for reinsurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "Louisiana HB 247 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle M. Green , Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02745f78-fb00-408e-b06f-d4e025fececc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237799"
source_hash: "c4570c0d5f335928ef51b8cb0865dc3aca977014ad569c15157e88692641e62a"
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 247 (2020) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to credit for reinsurance

## Version chain

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

1. **HB247 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1159968)
2. **HB247 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181912)
3. **HB247 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169501)
4. **HB247 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172987)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1954, Green, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172161)
6. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1075, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169881)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1828, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174723)
8. **HB247 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178360)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#648) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#369) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 247 BY GREEN (#71) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 179. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 98, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02745f78-fb00-408e-b06f-d4e025fececc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).