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type: "Bill"
title: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Authorizes an insured to opt in to receive a claim payment by electronic transfer. (8/1/18)"
description: "INSURANCE CLAIMS: Authorizes an insured to opt in to receive a claim payment by electronic transfer. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Louisiana SB 85 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John R. Smith"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-25"
last_action: "2018-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a30b3720-6d21-4d8a-bf28-9432e24e2daa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233342"
source_hash: "9c0d2cff628e407d59baeae982ca19c960d32e99b2b5b3d09dc3ea7a81294306"
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 SB 85 (2018) — INSURANCE CLAIMS: Authorizes an insured to opt in to receive a claim payment by electronic transfer. (8/1/18)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB85 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1067135)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #1339, INS, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1081147)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2773, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086019)
4. **SB85 Act 27** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097221)
5. **SB85 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074833)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #909, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074776)
7. **SB85 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092148)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#626) — **860** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR (#638) — **360** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **360** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- John R. Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-10** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 27. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-02** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-01** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2018-04-30** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2018-04-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 86, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/27/18.
- **2018-04-16** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-12** Reported with amendments (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-20** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-25** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a30b3720-6d21-4d8a-bf28-9432e24e2daa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).