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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to definition of terms in the Civil Code"
+description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to definition of terms in the Civil Code"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 181"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 181 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-31"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a5f13bb-9a4c-4927-bb17-170f25035e3c"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248102"
+source_hash: "9079a8209b12491dc6e9059b8af570a64e2975fbda555cdadacface298841900"
+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 181 (2025) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to definition of terms in the Civil Code
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB181 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400407)
+2. **HB181 Act 488** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1427676)
+3. **HB181 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408945)
+4. **HB181 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419681)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#220) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#466) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-07-01** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-07-01** Becomes Act No. 488 without the Governor's signature. `became-law`
+- **2025-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-02** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-06-02** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
+- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably. `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 97, 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`
+- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a5f13bb-9a4c-4927-bb17-170f25035e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+