---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides for catastrophe response plans"
description: "INSURERS: Provides for catastrophe response plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 521"
citation: "Louisiana HB 521 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db4e04e1-efc8-4b36-a6ec-451188d0648d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242289"
source_hash: "0da994603772ab9c8f1c9c9aad8f21308e8b4356df17b64188904c7ee5b299bf"
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 521 (2022) — INSURERS: Provides for catastrophe response plans

## Version chain

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

1. **HB521 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256248)
2. **HB521 Act 157** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286097)
3. **HB521 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267635)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2141, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267009)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2159, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267492)
6. **HB521 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280432)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#677) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#328) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 01/01/2023.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 157. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/19/2022.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-15** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-12** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-11** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/22.
- **2022-04-13** Notice given.
- **2022-04-13** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2022.
- **2022-04-07** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-06** Reported with amendments (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db4e04e1-efc8-4b36-a6ec-451188d0648d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).