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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment"
+description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 196"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 196 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-03-24"
+last_action: "2023-06-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f443bdb4-0f2a-4506-bb86-49a4040984e3"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244054"
+source_hash: "a9df70ee312799c23a1c4aa58e89c3a49f8c434ec818db0bfb86de84a10c9f30"
+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 196 (2023) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB196 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305136)
+2. **HB196 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332475)
+3. **HB196 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312649)
+4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2183, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325602)
+5. **HB196 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330750)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1024) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chad Brown — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
+- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
+- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2023.
+- **2023-04-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
+- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f443bdb4-0f2a-4506-bb86-49a4040984e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+