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+type: "Bill"
+title: "SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state"
+description: "SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 719"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 719 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-21"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a94025c-44c1-416b-85d4-cb40f60a2cb3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234444"
+source_hash: "2a0a40a1094613d406cc4b300c5e0ef9ad7f6d0e70aa4511dcbe3ba5253bc9c8"
+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 719 (2018) — SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB719 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077522)
+2. **HB719 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097999)
+3. **HB719 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082027)
+4. **HB719 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094605)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#842) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#348) — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Franklin J. Foil — 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. 178. `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 34 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.
+- **2018-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2018-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
+- **2018-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2018-04-03** Reported favorably (6-0).
+- **2018-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a94025c-44c1-416b-85d4-cb40f60a2cb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+