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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for the prescriptive period for certain actions for abuse of a minor. (6/14/24)"
+description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for the prescriptive period for certain actions for abuse of a minor. (6/14/24)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 246"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 246 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jay Luneau"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1b6c9e7-29cb-4e43-9b2b-f8a2ed793c02"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246469"
+source_hash: "473afff613d94312e318a2bfc2c0058b63676d1655981b62e4cf827e441307dc"
+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 246 (2024) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for the prescriptive period for certain actions for abuse of a minor. (6/14/24)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB246 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352308)
+2. **SB246 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381959)
+3. **SB246 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370302)
+4. **SB246 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371997)
+5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2971, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371391)
+6. **SB246 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377733)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1283) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#516) — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#515) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jay Luneau — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Delisha Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Dewitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaun Mena — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-03** Effective date 8/1/2024.
+- **2024-06-03** Becomes Act No. 481 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2024-05-28** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/23/2024. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-23** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-22** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2024.
+- **2024-05-15** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-14** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-05-13** Reported favorably (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-05-06** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1b6c9e7-29cb-4e43-9b2b-f8a2ed793c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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