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+type: "Bill"
+title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to the limitation of civil liability for nonprofits that donate medical supplies"
+description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to the limitation of civil liability for nonprofits that donate medical supplies"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 16"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 16 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Laurie Schlegel"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-25"
+last_action: "2025-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50abb424-f552-482a-b656-58c5a9f665c8"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247899"
+source_hash: "bf686aa086114c5920d5612e57b4e84a2c272858a6de8b058a099f3f44d002e9"
+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 16 (2025) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to the limitation of civil liability for nonprofits that donate medical supplies
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB16 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1394626)
+2. **HB16 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425490)
+3. **HB16 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408875)
+4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2320, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418612)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2322, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418617)
+6. **HB16 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422138)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#550) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#208) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#864) — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Laurie Schlegel — primary (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
+- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 234. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-04** Read by title, roll called, yeas 87, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2025-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/04/2025.
+- **2025-06-02** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-29** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
+- **2025-04-29** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably (9-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
+- **2025-02-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50abb424-f552-482a-b656-58c5a9f665c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+