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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SUCCESSION/INHERITANCE: Provides for access to funds in a securities account prior to naming of an executor"
+description: "SUCCESSION/INHERITANCE: Provides for access to funds in a securities account prior to naming of an executor"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 497"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 497 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Pearson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14329dca-5781-42c5-9e73-09c0bbdf31f7"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233928"
+source_hash: "7b5ecda52514ae29ed80eae02e83c841a3a45ebc3415232fcecfc134f7dd6dbd"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 497 (2018) — SUCCESSION/INHERITANCE: Provides for access to funds in a securities account prior to naming of an executor
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB497 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1072263)
+2. **HB497 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097962)
+3. **HB497 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1084775)
+4. **HB497 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1089794)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #3047, Pearson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087281)
+6. **HB497 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094618)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#564) — **83–2** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#837) — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kevin Pearson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
+- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 167. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
+- **2018-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 2. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-24** Called from the calendar.
+- **2018-04-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/18.
+- **2018-04-17** Notice given.
+- **2018-04-17** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2018-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/18.
+- **2018-04-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-10** Reported favorably (7-0).
+- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14329dca-5781-42c5-9e73-09c0bbdf31f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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