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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts"
+description: "PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 72"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 72 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-14"
+last_action: "2025-06-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6aec0781-0daf-4aeb-87a3-9b6aa83eaaeb"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247959"
+source_hash: "ba2c7f7e38f6f48b8072dbdf515db5c0fb055a49a7c8d6b6735c42ed68db0455"
+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 72 (2025) — PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB72 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1396844)
+2. **HB72 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425028)
+3. **HB72 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1411515)
+4. **HB72 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419660)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#459) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
+- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-08** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
+- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **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 36 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`
+- **2025-05-13** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-12** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
+- **2025-05-07** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06** Reported favorably (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
+- **2025-03-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
+- **2025-03-14** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6aec0781-0daf-4aeb-87a3-9b6aa83eaaeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+