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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security"
+description: "CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 434"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 434 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-05-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248441"
+source_hash: "3f8d9f294896c99fc7d8b94aafb9bb74c25979623ea79326df925b3bd641d074"
+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 434 (2025) — CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB434 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403627)
+2. **HB434 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419041)
+3. **HB434 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405636)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #1092, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404911)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1209, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405605)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1649, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414130)
+7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2117, Duplessis, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417125)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2119, Duplessis, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417144)
+9. **HB434 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417433)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#44) — **76–14** (pass) · lower
+- AMENDMENT # 2117 BY DUPLESSIS, HB 434 BY DEWITT (#342) — **11–26** (fail) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **28–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2025-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-04-28** Called from the calendar.
+- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
+- **2025-04-24** Notice given.
+- **2025-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
+- **2025-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15** Reported with amendments (11-2-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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