---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock"
description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 784"
citation: "Louisiana HB 784 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-26"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246893"
source_hash: "e451b334ec25c0a72558865b2020e26d43b4529d06950456405a700de32e30df"
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 784 (2024) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock

## Version chain

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

1. **HB784 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358026)
2. **HB784 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379602)
3. **HB784 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363399)
4. **HB784 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365466)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2259, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361758)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2585, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363348)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2888, Schamerhorn, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365036)
8. **HB784 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375754)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — **98–5** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#901) — **10–0** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#900) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
- Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 252. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported with amendments (8-3-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).