---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides relative to small successions"
description: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides relative to small successions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Louisiana HB 309 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuel Jenkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-02"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba85e295-f0d2-403c-8b4b-07c750b26cbf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241935"
source_hash: "bbb1785ec22c1d3adfc19eba65c6d87b825f909bf8ff73c7fc2ad501d8b0da8c"
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 309 (2022) — SUCCESSIONS: Provides relative to small successions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB309 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1253759)
2. **HB309 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280947)
3. **HB309 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266586)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #2021, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1265515)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2084, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1266431)
6. **HB309 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278625)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#233) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#532) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuel Jenkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 44. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-16** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-11** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/11/2022.
- **2022-04-06** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-05** Reported with amendments (15-0-1).
- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba85e295-f0d2-403c-8b4b-07c750b26cbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).