---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Insurance"
description: "SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 122"
citation: "Louisiana HB 122 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Huval"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-22"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d57f2e52-4dec-495c-8b7d-158957327acc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241681"
source_hash: "0b8fa39e7532e063d2f8646e4d17c6af11b9f0027f8ce31b55dd17c632dbe4db"
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 122 (2022) — SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Insurance

## Version chain

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

1. **HB122 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1249333)
2. **HB122 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280926)
3. **HB122 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261547)
4. **HB122 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277863)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#107) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#500) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Huval — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 06/30/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 32. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-10** Rules suspended.
- **2022-04-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-04-14** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-13** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-03-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/29/2022.
- **2022-03-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-03-23** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/25/2022.
- **2022-02-22** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d57f2e52-4dec-495c-8b7d-158957327acc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).