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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings"
+description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 98"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 98 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-18"
+last_action: "2020-06-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b96e7fc7-9868-4ad7-b533-d93278ed03fe"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237536"
+source_hash: "2f99058d78af30fced1cdd3bfa8a00c8fcebbce6d38e4f9de2f5f0951966d177"
+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 98 (2020) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB98 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1155814)
+2. **HB98 Act 13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180195)
+3. **HB98 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165254)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #1114, Pressly, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165366)
+5. **HB98 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175262)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#10) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#296) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
+- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2020-03-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-03-12** Called from the calendar.
+- **2020-03-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2020-03-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/12/20.
+- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (13-0).
+- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
+- **2020-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b96e7fc7-9868-4ad7-b533-d93278ed03fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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