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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 438: INSURANCE/RATES: Provides relative to advertising expenses and prohibits use of certain expenses in setting insurance rates

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 438 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on April 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: INSURANCE/RATES: Provides relative to advertising expenses and prohibits use of certain expenses in setting insurance rates. Primary sponsor: Gabe Firment (Republican). It lists 26 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 4, 2025): Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 85.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 23

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Gabe FirmentPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse22
Roy AdamsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse62
Tony BacalaCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse59
Larry BagleyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse7
Chad BoyerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse46
Rhonda ButlerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse38
Josh CarlsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse43
Dewith CarrierCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse32
Robby CarterCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse72
Emily ChenevertCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse66
Phillip DeVillierCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse41
Jason DeWittCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Kathy EdmonstonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse88
Peter EganCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Julie EmersonCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Foy GadberryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse15
Kellee HennessyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse64
Chance HenryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse42
Stephanie HilfertyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse94
Dodie HortonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse9
Mike JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse27
Jeremy LaCombeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse18
Chuck OwenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Rodney SchamerhornCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse24
Joe StagniCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Lauren VentrellaCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse65
John WybleCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse75

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 85.
  2. Effective date: 01/01/2026.
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/29/2025.
  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  6. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  7. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  10. Reported favorably.
  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source