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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig)"
+description: "LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 491"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 491 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-03-31"
+last_action: "2020-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b21c848-6015-45ec-8d5c-cc903b752332"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238825"
+source_hash: "583c1273c9b544a34fb68715e885f45cd9fb5e3f837bbfbbc95a69fcdc81524b"
+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 SB 491 (2020) — LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB491 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168211)
+2. **SB491 Act 303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182329)
+3. **SB491 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169724)
+4. **SB491 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172608)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1131, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170465)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1366, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171758)
+7. **SB491 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177513)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — **28–6** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
+- Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
+- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 303. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
+- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-26** Rules suspended.
+- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 6 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-07** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-31** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b21c848-6015-45ec-8d5c-cc903b752332`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+