republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2021/sb-131.md

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Bill	LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)	LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2021	SB 131	Louisiana SB 131 (2021)	bill		enacted	Robert Mills	12	19	3	2021-03-31	2021-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/8a451783-27d5-460a-a00e-578022d512b9	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240242	0de5957f4ae3a49f8b8a89a7479b56ba4140e29d7c06fbf17fb16fa3097163d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 131 (2021) — LIABILITY: Prohibits insurance companies from including defense costs within the limits of liability except under certain circumstances. (8/1/21)

Version chain

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

1. SB131 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #2653, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #2829, INS, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House Floor Amendment, #2900, Seabaugh, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB131 Act 225 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB131 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SB131 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #733, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #766, INS, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Amendment, #985, Mills, Robert, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #817, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. SB131 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#740) — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#647) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#114) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert Mills — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-14 Effective date 8/1/2021.
• 2021-06-14 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 225. executive-signature
• 2021-06-06 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/4/2021. executive-receipt
• 2021-06-03 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2021-06-03 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2021-06-01 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2021-05-27 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2021-05-26 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2021-05-20 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/26/2021.
• 2021-05-17 Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2021-05-13 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2021-05-12 Reported with amendments (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2021-04-28 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2021-04-26 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2021-04-21 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2021-04-20 Reported with amendments.
• 2021-04-12 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2021-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a451783-27d5-460a-a00e-578022d512b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).