---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the organization of the Department of Insurance (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the organization of the Department of Insurance (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 529"
citation: "Louisiana HB 529 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa2a33ac-e5ff-4581-a6ca-b0ad03f35b27"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242297"
source_hash: "084c87c7f14c5dfa157523227a1e8a9002cc973e6e917d4998d71a4eec703d83"
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 529 (2022) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the organization of the Department of Insurance (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB529 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256257)
2. **HB529 Act 159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286102)
3. **HB529 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262001)
4. **HB529 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265490)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1456, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260898)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1476, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261789)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1725, Brown, Chad, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262875)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1989, Brown, Chad, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265206)
9. **HB529 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279779)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#147) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#612) — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-25** Effective date: 05/25/2022.
- **2022-05-25** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 159. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-19** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-18** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-17** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-16** Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-20** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-06** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** 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/aa2a33ac-e5ff-4581-a6ca-b0ad03f35b27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).