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LA HB881

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/27/2026

Primary Sponsor

Gabe Firment

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Origin

House of Representatives

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to approve homeowners' insurance rate filings before the standard notification periods expire

  • Clarifies the Commissioner's authority to verify statistical data in rate filings by requiring written documentation or inspecting insurer/rating organization records at home or branch offices

  • Requires insurers to include general contractor overhead and profit in claim payments for fire and extended coverage losses when use of a general contractor is reasonably foreseeable

  • Specifies that the general contractor overhead and profit requirement applies to both replacement cost policies and actual cash value policies

  • Amends R.S. 22:1451(E), 1464(A)(3), and 1892(F)(1)

Legislative Description

Provides relative to rate filings and claims settlement requirements for homeowners' insurance

INSURANCE/HOMEOWNERS

Last Action

Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance.

3/9/2026

Committee Referrals

Insurance2/27/2026

Full Bill Text

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