---
type: "Bill"
title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to taking judicial notice of statutes"
description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to taking judicial notice of statutes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 16"
citation: "Louisiana HB 16 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Danahay"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/def3dfd4-0485-4b00-9396-436392ad3880"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233081"
source_hash: "f0835780a22b424b72afeb6f081c9a74072dbc52fc6490cef202661f2a7335c1"
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 (2018) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to taking judicial notice of statutes

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB16 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1061300)
2. **HB16 Act 184** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1099039)
3. **HB16 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1079404)
4. **HB16 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082942)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2065, Danahay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1080839)
6. **HB16 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094166)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#231) — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#780) — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mike Danahay — primary (person)
- Stephen Dwight — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-05-15** Effective date: 08/01/2018.
- **2018-05-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 184. `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-10** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-10** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-05-08** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2018-05-07** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-05-02** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-05-01** Reported favorably.
- **2018-04-09** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-04** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/04/18.
- **2018-03-28** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-03-27** Reported favorably (6-0).
- **2018-03-12** Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2018.
- **2018-01-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/def3dfd4-0485-4b00-9396-436392ad3880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).