--- type: "Bill" title: "INSURANCE/HEALTH-ACCID: Provides for health and accident insurance producers and consultants and modifies terminology relative to health and accident insurance" description: "INSURANCE/HEALTH-ACCID: Provides for health and accident insurance producers and consultants and modifies terminology relative to health and accident insurance" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2022" identifier: "HB 695" citation: "Louisiana HB 695 (2022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Mark Wright"] version_count: 6 action_count: 21 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2022-03-04" last_action: "2022-05-17" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c706fcb7-e775-4430-b04e-14aa6733bc25" source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242504" source_hash: "a9ffe0a316a856b126a1f7ec5c8ea405ba1b44240d15d65823602d304c588a63" 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 695 (2022) — INSURANCE/HEALTH-ACCID: Provides for health and accident insurance producers and consultants and modifies terminology relative to health and accident insurance ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB695 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1257573) 2. **HB695 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281027) 3. **HB695 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261979) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #1462, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260923) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1553, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261805) 6. **HB695 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277884) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#158) — **99–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#503) — **34–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Mark Wright — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022. - **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 56. `executive-signature` - **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2022-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. - **2022-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments. - **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2022-04-13** 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. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. - **2022-04-05** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2022-03-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/05/2022. - **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. - **2022-03-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee` - **2022-03-04** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c706fcb7-e775-4430-b04e-14aa6733bc25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).