---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to delivery of judgment of interdiction"
description: "CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to delivery of judgment of interdiction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Louisiana HB 449 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/121b79dd-4ba6-44b9-b0e8-a5fc18522e1d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246152"
source_hash: "f4524d8678300bab08acd5e099dceecfa8be423d6034d27fccfaa9a12e48f9d9"
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 449 (2024) — CIVIL/LAW: Provides relative to delivery of judgment of interdiction

## Version chain

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

1. **HB449 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1350820)
2. **HB449 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1373008)
3. **HB449 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354258)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1076, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353292)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1161, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354015)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1198, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354227)
7. **HB449 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370815)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#30) — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#461) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-08** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-08** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 25. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/1/2024.
- **2024-05-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-04-30** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-04-30** 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`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/19/2024.
- **2024-03-18** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-13** Reported with amendments (12-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/121b79dd-4ba6-44b9-b0e8-a5fc18522e1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).