---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 98"
citation: "Louisiana HB 98 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-18"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b96e7fc7-9868-4ad7-b533-d93278ed03fe"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237536"
source_hash: "2f99058d78af30fced1cdd3bfa8a00c8fcebbce6d38e4f9de2f5f0951966d177"
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 98 (2020) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the signing of civil pleadings

## Version chain

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

1. **HB98 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1155814)
2. **HB98 Act 13** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180195)
3. **HB98 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165254)
4. **House Floor Amendment, #1114, Pressly, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165366)
5. **HB98 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175262)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#10) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#296) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 13. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-03-12** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-03-12** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-03-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/12/20.
- **2020-03-11** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-11** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/24/2020.
- **2020-02-18** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b96e7fc7-9868-4ad7-b533-d93278ed03fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).