---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue for actions involving certain insurers"
description: "CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue for actions involving certain insurers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 88"
citation: "Louisiana HB 88 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d45d8762-a0f0-4322-a36f-d1225cd81ae6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245632"
source_hash: "ef3d2b42eb2e5bcfc9adac98afdaeb5e8150414c937de62c911c21189790d9eb"
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 88 (2024) — CIVIL/VENUE: Provides for venue for actions involving certain insurers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB88 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1343450)
2. **HB88 Act 595** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382324)
3. **HB88 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365263)
4. **HB88 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1367249)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #3151, Melerine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1366109)
6. **HB88 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379201)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#608) — **68–29** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#1249) — **26–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — 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. 595. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 10 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-28** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Insurance.
- **2024-04-23** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2024-04-23** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-18** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 29. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-18** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-04-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/18/2024.
- **2024-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** Reported favorably (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/16/2024.
- **2024-02-15** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d45d8762-a0f0-4322-a36f-d1225cd81ae6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).