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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)"
+description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024s2"
+identifier: "HB 23"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 23 (2024s2)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
+version_count: 12
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-02-20"
+last_action: "2024-03-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6da56081-4abf-4ed6-83ed-7ea2711b2f72"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245675"
+source_hash: "9df34eb1d16499f190ac40c32de5fd719e4ecf9e918464cae004d61571ee09e2"
+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 23 (2024s2) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB23 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344478)
+2. **HB23 Act 12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353040)
+3. **HB23 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344684)
+4. **HB23 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345911)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #81, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344568)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #86, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1344665)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #118, Carter, Wilford, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345257)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #119, Melerine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1345260)
+9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #233, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346401)
+10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #261, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347021)
+11. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #342, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1348965)
+12. **HB23 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349603)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CIVIL LAW (#20) — **70–27** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#55) — **72–31** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#83) — **71–28** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **30–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael Melerine — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-05** Effective date: 04/29/2024.
+- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 12. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2024-02-29** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-29** Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 27, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2024-02-28** Scheduled for concurrence on 02/29/2024.
+- **2024-02-28** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-02-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-26** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-23** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-02-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 02/23/2024.
+- **2024-02-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Reported with amendments (10-3-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-20** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6da56081-4abf-4ed6-83ed-7ea2711b2f72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+