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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)"
+description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 231"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 231 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-04-04"
+last_action: "2025-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bc6e183-47cb-466e-b518-652d26cf14e4"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248754"
+source_hash: "9c9becbe4508daed5d0fcfa087f41b2a071cf7956bb5c9817b7f39a090627ff0"
+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 SB 231 (2025) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB231 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404726)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #3822, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420042)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #4113, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422307)
+4. **SB231 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426854)
+5. **SB231 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414633)
+6. **SB231 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417378)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1613, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413954)
+8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1633, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414031)
+9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1967, McMath, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416309)
+10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2042, Luneau, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416831)
+11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2143, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417353)
+12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2148, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417373)
+13. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2003, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416436)
+14. **SB231 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424091)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#945) — **81–15** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR (#881) — **30–6** (pass) · upper
+- AMENDMENT # 2143 BY SEABAUGH, SB 231 BY REESE (#352) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **27–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Reese — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-30** Effective date 1/1/2026.
+- **2025-06-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 466. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 30 yeas and 6 nays.
+- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 15. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
+- **2025-06-04** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2025-05-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
+- **2025-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
+- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bc6e183-47cb-466e-b518-652d26cf14e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+