0:05 → 2:22(2m 17s)
Chair opens the April 23 hearing, calls the roll and confirms quorum (initially 10, then 11). Announces procedural rules for testimony and witness cards, notes HB1142 (Martinez) is deferred, and recognizes a National Insurance Crime Bureau representative.
The Louisiana House Insurance Committee met April 23, 2026, to consider multiple insurance-related bills including measures to reallocate excess emergency assessments to the Fortified Homes program, a genetic-testing coverage bill for SCN2A disorders, a proposal to centralize surplus-lines policy data, and health-insurance coverage for certain injectable glucose/weight-loss drugs. Several bills were deferred; the surplus-lines data measure failed on a 6-6 roll call.
