---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to the partition of property"
description: "PROPERTY: Provides relative to the partition of property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 400"
citation: "Louisiana HB 400 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean-Paul Coussan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d961a009-f61d-48ff-9ed0-a9def40cc691"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240312"
source_hash: "2ae9d88faff719b52f6c6148ddffe685024ffde304997663e7c7f544ac7dcb48"
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 400 (2021) — PROPERTY: Provides relative to the partition of property

## Version chain

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

1. **HB400 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210708)
2. **HB400 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230387)
3. **HB400 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215402)
4. **HB400 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217511)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #1688, Coussan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217226)
6. **HB400 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1223977)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#75) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#326) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean-Paul Coussan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Effective date: 06/01/2021.
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 27. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-18** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-17** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-05-13** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-05** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-04** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Called from the calendar.
- **2021-04-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2021.
- **2021-04-22** Notice given.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2021.
- **2021-04-21** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-20** Reported favorably (13-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d961a009-f61d-48ff-9ed0-a9def40cc691`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).