--- type: "Bill" title: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to examinations and certain adopted handbooks" description: "INSURANCE: Provides relative to examinations and certain adopted handbooks" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2024" identifier: "HB 311" citation: "Louisiana HB 311 (2024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Troy Hebert"] version_count: 6 action_count: 19 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2024-02-28" last_action: "2024-05-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b965b4ba-4b3f-4abc-8196-5900819fcc64" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245949" source_hash: "8e1045629acd585cd13a3b8be161722644a3728122129b6131802f45577b9816" 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 311 (2024) — INSURANCE: Provides relative to examinations and certain adopted handbooks ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB311 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349044) 2. **HB311 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379597) 3. **HB311 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358401) 4. **House Committee Amendment, #1292, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354881) 5. **House Committee Amendment, #1784, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358318) 6. **HB311 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374823) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#192) — **104–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#744) — **35–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Troy Hebert — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024. - **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2024-04-23** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2024-04-22** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2024-04-17** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 104, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2024-03-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024. - **2024-03-27** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2024-03-26** Reported with amendments (14-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b965b4ba-4b3f-4abc-8196-5900819fcc64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).