---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for motion for judgment on offer of judgment. (8/1/24)"
description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for motion for judgment on offer of judgment. (8/1/24)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 84"
citation: "Louisiana SB 84 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Seabaugh"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58ba752b-79bf-4da9-9605-c8d6c21cb736"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245965"
source_hash: "cdcfa23a63a08ce65799e185d09be9599911dcee11a8291a1f9ed2087a7ddc4e"
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 SB 84 (2024) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for motion for judgment on offer of judgment. (8/1/24)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB84 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349217)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #4843, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376183)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #4861, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376275)
4. **SB84 Act 502** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382207)
5. **SB84 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370408)
6. **SB84 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1372004)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2394, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1368395)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2673, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1369806)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2781, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370325)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3063, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371902)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3071, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371952)
12. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2998, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1371528)
13. **SB84 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379067)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1344) — **68–20** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#1216) — **27–10** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#514) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alan Seabaugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Effective date 8/1/2024.
- **2024-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 502. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2024-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 27 yeas and 10 nays.
- **2024-05-23** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 20. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/23/2024.
- **2024-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2024-05-20** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2024-05-06** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58ba752b-79bf-4da9-9605-c8d6c21cb736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).