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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock"
+description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 784"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 784 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-03-26"
+last_action: "2024-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246893"
+source_hash: "e451b334ec25c0a72558865b2020e26d43b4529d06950456405a700de32e30df"
+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 784 (2024) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB784 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358026)
+2. **HB784 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379602)
+3. **HB784 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363399)
+4. **HB784 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365466)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2259, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361758)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #2585, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363348)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2888, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365036)
+8. **HB784 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375754)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — **98–5** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#901) — **10–0** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#900) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (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. 252. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
+- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (8-3-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-26** 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/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+