---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the disposition of proceeds from certain taxes and fees collected by the Department of Insurance"
description: "INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the disposition of proceeds from certain taxes and fees collected by the Department of Insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 329"
citation: "Louisiana HB 329 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy Hebert"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edc77f95-1265-46f1-b4c1-07dc455873e7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248294"
source_hash: "0f0ccd4cc6fc988b87904525938ad70347366698f1f03fb7c04793253b5aa71f"
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 329 (2025) — INSURANCE DEPARTMENT: Provides for the disposition of proceeds from certain taxes and fees collected by the Department of Insurance

## Version chain

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

1. **HB329 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1402515)
2. **HB329 Act 79** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422292)
3. **HB329 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407978)
4. **HB329 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409980)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1410, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406730)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1522, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407970)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #857, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408248)
8. **HB329 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419254)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#444) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Troy Hebert — primary (person)
- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date: 07/01/2026.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 79. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/29/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported with amendments (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edc77f95-1265-46f1-b4c1-07dc455873e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).