---
type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides settlement practices for claims relative to property and rentals of motor vehicles"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides settlement practices for claims relative to property and rentals of motor vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 437"
citation: "Louisiana HB 437 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabe Firment"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07079899-87ca-4fbb-adb4-2c8d8a853c17"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248444"
source_hash: "5084725102258a76af0bbedf752be43f4c0a6649eb72a19eac080027aab6c6d1"
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 437 (2025) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Provides settlement practices for claims relative to property and rentals of motor vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB437 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403629)
2. **HB437 Act 500** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427691)
3. **HB437 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407621)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2428, Bass, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419819)
5. **HB437 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422694)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#657) — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#937) — **72–26** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#141) — **71–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gabe Firment — primary (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 500 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 72, nays 26, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-06-03** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-28** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **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. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 27. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/30/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Reported favorably (10-5). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07079899-87ca-4fbb-adb4-2c8d8a853c17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).