---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state"
description: "SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 719"
citation: "Louisiana HB 719 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-21"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a94025c-44c1-416b-85d4-cb40f60a2cb3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=234444"
source_hash: "2a0a40a1094613d406cc4b300c5e0ef9ad7f6d0e70aa4511dcbe3ba5253bc9c8"
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 719 (2018) — SUITS AGAINST ST/CLAIMS: Provides relative to personal injury claims against the state

## Version chain

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

1. **HB719 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077522)
2. **HB719 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1097999)
3. **HB719 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1082027)
4. **HB719 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1094605)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#842) — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#348) — **96–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (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. 178. `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.
- **2018-05-08** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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.
- **2018-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2018-04-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/10/18.
- **2018-04-04** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-03** Reported favorably (6-0).
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a94025c-44c1-416b-85d4-cb40f60a2cb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).