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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier"
+description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 27"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 27 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da6aaafa-d6d2-49cd-9588-3693802b9598"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245543"
+source_hash: "6ccc2a89643ee69c944cf4b0d2d80faacd7f50e183a2107f62fc1220dee4459c"
+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 27 (2024) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB27 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341191)
+2. **HB27 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379485)
+3. **HB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353814)
+4. **HB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374785)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#7) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#729) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael Melerine — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-03-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/18/2024.
+- **2024-03-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-12** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2024.
+- **2024-01-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da6aaafa-d6d2-49cd-9588-3693802b9598`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+