---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURERS: Provides for prelicensing requirements for insurance producers"
description: "INSURERS: Provides for prelicensing requirements for insurance producers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 545"
citation: "Louisiana HB 545 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fe71c6d-a9ab-48b1-ab39-4adb649187d6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242313"
source_hash: "01145dcdcf2287d884797f7cfdcaab80125691b6efbdaa4bc4f7b83c06cc724c"
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 545 (2022) — INSURERS: Provides for prelicensing requirements for insurance producers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB545 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1256474)
2. **HB545 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288538)
3. **HB545 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261808)
4. **HB545 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265521)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1463, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260922)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1477, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261743)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1716, Wright, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262830)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1770, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268892)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1849, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269413)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2024, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270444)
11. **HB545 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281345)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#992) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#502) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-03** Effective date: 06/03/2022.
- **2022-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 273. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
- **2022-05-10** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Rules suspended.
- **2022-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-14** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-13** Reported with amendments.
- **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 95, nays 1. 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 (9-0).
- **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/9fe71c6d-a9ab-48b1-ab39-4adb649187d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).