republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-137.md

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Bill	INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)	INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 137	Louisiana SB 137 (2025)	bill		enacted	Kirk Talbot	9	21	3	2025-04-04	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/6df84fb1-2b8b-4138-a34e-5f9f7ad4cad4	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248490	6814dbfd799d85240a278f292f90bf543a6ee7911f0f7d9fe9f0ad817b999294	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 137 (2025) — INSURERS: Requires insurers to notify the Department of Insurance upon ceasing, pausing, or resuming the writing of policies in a particular region. (1/1/26)

Version chain

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

1. SB137 Original (filed) — source
2. House Committee Amendment, #2146, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Amendment, #2824, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #2875, INS, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. SB137 Act 429 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB137 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #524, INS, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #542, INS, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. SB137 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#902) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR (#856) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#52) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kirk Talbot — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-20 Effective date 1/1/2026.
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 429. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-11 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-10 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-10 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-09 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2025-06-04 Received from the House with amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-04 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/04/2025.
• 2025-06-02 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-29 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-05-28 Reported favorably (14-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
• 2025-05-14 Reported with amendments (14-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-04-23 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-04-22 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-04-16 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 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/6df84fb1-2b8b-4138-a34e-5f9f7ad4cad4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).