---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY: Provides relative to certain immunity from civil liability during state of emergencies. (gov sig)"
description: "LIABILITY: Provides relative to certain immunity from civil liability during state of emergencies. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 435"
citation: "Louisiana SB 435 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Abraham"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ae8999c-7b3f-4c7c-bae8-157e324312f6"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238720"
source_hash: "4eb57c9ee68c067bb5f29a2d5f832fbe8b5298137b591a4c381ee3508ed416bd"
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 435 (2020) — LIABILITY: Provides relative to certain immunity from civil liability during state of emergencies. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB435 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1167967)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #2456, House Proposed, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178616)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #2657, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176230)
4. **SB435 Act 362** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182578)
5. **SB435 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169666)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1365, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171755)
7. **SB435 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178942)

## Votes

- REJECT (#440) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO ADOPT (#761) — **91–1** (pass) · lower
- ADOPT (#719) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#470) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#209) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Abraham — primary (person)
- Franklin J. Foil — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-12** Effective date 6/12/2020.
- **2020-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 362. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 34 yeas and 1 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 91, nays 1. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2020-06-01** Conference Committee report received.
- **2020-05-31** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/01/20.
- **2020-05-31** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2020-05-31** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-31** House conferees appointed: Stefanski, Gregory Miller, and Pressly.
- **2020-05-29** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2020-05-29** Senate conference committee members appointed: Abraham, McMath, and Peacock.
- **2020-05-29** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ae8999c-7b3f-4c7c-bae8-157e324312f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).