---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGMENTS: Provides relative to default judgments"
description: "JUDGMENTS: Provides relative to default judgments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Louisiana HB 164 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Carter"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7c7a179-85e1-485d-911e-3138935ff3ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239989"
source_hash: "d1c1945878d4d6c4efd34b599f75204cde6894fc0a751b4e2aabcbc2e92c640d"
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 164 (2021) — JUDGMENTS: Provides relative to default judgments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB164 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1205658)
2. **HB164 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235104)
3. **HB164 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214069)
4. **HB164 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215178)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1082, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1213062)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1186, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214008)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1280, Carter, Robby, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214771)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #1315, Carter, Robby, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214927)
9. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #603, Pierre, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214256)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2161, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225361)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2213, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1225683)
12. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2413, Peacock, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226690)
13. **HB164 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231749)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#23) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#597) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#928) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: See Act.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 174. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported with amendments.
- **2021-04-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-19** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported with amendments (9-5-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-23** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7c7a179-85e1-485d-911e-3138935ff3ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).