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LouisianaHB 2802025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to the collection of workers' compensation premiums (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)

Sponsored By: Michael Melerine (Republican)

Became Law

Labor and Industrial Relations

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Businesses gain limits on workers’ compensation audits

Louisiana workers’ compensation insurers can collect audit-based premiums only after giving businesses written notice within 90 days of audit completion. Notice must come by certified mail, commercial courier, or electronic transmission. Insurers generally cannot finish or change an audit more than three years after the policy period ends. Exceptions cover misrepresentation or missing relevant information during a prior audit, business noncompliance with an audit, or a business-disputed audit. Fraud-related changes or reviews and court-ordered reclassifications also qualify for exceptions. Insurers may return premiums when an audit shows the business is owed a refund. These rules do not apply to self-insurance funds.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Michael Melerine

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 110 • No: 36

Senate vote • 6/8/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 27 • No: 11

House vote • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 75 • No: 22

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 8 • No: 3

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/10/2025Senate

  2. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/10/2025House

  3. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/9/2025House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/9/2025House

  5. Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.

    6/8/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/8/2025Senate

  7. Rules suspended.

    5/29/2025Senate

  8. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/29/2025Senate

  9. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/28/2025Senate

  10. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025Senate

  11. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2025Senate

  12. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    5/7/2025Senate

  13. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/6/2025Senate

  14. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2025House

  15. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/28/2025House

  16. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  17. Reported favorably (8-3).

    4/24/2025House

  18. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    4/14/2025House

  19. Prefiled.

    4/2/2025House

  20. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    4/2/2025House

  21. Becomes Act No. 490 without the Governor's signature.

    7/1/2024House

  22. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

    7/1/2024House

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