---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for catastrophe claims process disclosure. (1/1/23)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for catastrophe claims process disclosure. (1/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "Louisiana SB 163 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kirk Talbot"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e44d06b5-6a8d-4b93-bbc4-e78a406bae2d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242079"
source_hash: "496c9c7f02ebf83bfce9d4e7002c18c414a9b123efe58e63dd302b2c64300e13"
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 SB 163 (2022) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides for catastrophe claims process disclosure. (1/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB163 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254620)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3610, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275233)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #3669, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275519)
4. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2745, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1275791)
5. **SB163 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283682)
6. **SB163 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261831)
7. **SB163 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263687)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #750, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260747)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #913, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261641)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1125, Smith, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263181)
11. **SB163 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280670)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#904) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#93) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#695) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
- Barrow Peacock — cosponsor (person)
- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Louie Bernard — cosponsor (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Mills — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-24** Effective date 1/1/2023.
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 80. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/20/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-19** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-19** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-18** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-17** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-17** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-12** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/17/2022.
- **2022-05-05** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-04** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-03** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-29** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-23** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e44d06b5-6a8d-4b93-bbc4-e78a406bae2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).