---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROPERTY/IMMOVABLE: Provides relative to actions to determine ownership or possession"
description: "PROPERTY/IMMOVABLE: Provides relative to actions to determine ownership or possession"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 220"
citation: "Louisiana HB 220 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Pressly"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b408e527-8644-4d9e-8ed7-32cbb1d6f63e"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244085"
source_hash: "133d06d6814aa81c277d7fe4d3efe86ba90476144a9f442d16f0f0d4c9ba3e28"
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 220 (2023) — PROPERTY/IMMOVABLE: Provides relative to actions to determine ownership or possession

## Version chain

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

1. **HB220 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305771)
2. **HB220 Act 421** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1333099)
3. **HB220 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313632)
4. **HB220 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315142)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1316, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312816)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1416, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313521)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1560, Pressly, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314287)
8. **HB220 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329756)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#68) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#733) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Pressly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-26** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-26** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 421. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2023.
- **2023-04-20** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** Reported with amendments (12-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b408e527-8644-4d9e-8ed7-32cbb1d6f63e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).