---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to default judgments"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to default judgments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Louisiana HB 7 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53b57946-8163-40ab-bd5f-7252e7e15420"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=243812"
source_hash: "3f2b17a1d8fd46082141004921000effdb69147057731699a64f111570840fd1"
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 7 (2023) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to default judgments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB7 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1297894)
2. **HB7 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328113)
3. **HB7 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1311129)
4. **HB7 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324049)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#356) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#16) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-30** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 7. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-18** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-18** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/17/2023.
- **2023-04-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Reported favorably (15-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/3/2023.
- **2023-01-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53b57946-8163-40ab-bd5f-7252e7e15420`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).