---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE: Provides for the appraisal process and employment of umpires"
description: "INSURANCE: Provides for the appraisal process and employment of umpires"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 609"
citation: "Louisiana HB 609 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99820957-4250-4404-8027-9fd8c2f2c468"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246415"
source_hash: "8469d15c7dda24f4325ba6819e5f0f7c7cd3aa87c20bcf98c303f66a99a982c2"
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 609 (2024) — INSURANCE: Provides for the appraisal process and employment of umpires

## Version chain

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

1. **HB609 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352171)
2. **HB609 Act 625** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382354)
3. **HB609 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359212)
4. **HB609 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362596)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1276, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354802)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1440, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1355967)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1455, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358583)
8. **House Committee Amendment, #1967, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359188)
9. **House Floor Amendment, #2105, Firment, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360022)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2844, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370855)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2863, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370900)
12. **HB609 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380135)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#259) — **79–22** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#927) — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1504) — **73–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 625. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 73, nays 11, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2024.
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/2024.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99820957-4250-4404-8027-9fd8c2f2c468`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).