---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)"
description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 231"
citation: "Louisiana SB 231 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Reese"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bc6e183-47cb-466e-b518-652d26cf14e4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248754"
source_hash: "9c9becbe4508daed5d0fcfa087f41b2a071cf7956bb5c9817b7f39a090627ff0"
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 231 (2025) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides for recoverable medical expenses. (1/1/26)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB231 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404726)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #3822, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420042)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4113, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422307)
4. **SB231 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1426854)
5. **SB231 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414633)
6. **SB231 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417378)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1613, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413954)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1633, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414031)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1967, McMath, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416309)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2042, Luneau, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416831)
11. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2143, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417353)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2148, Seabaugh, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417373)
13. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2003, Reese, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416436)
14. **SB231 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1424091)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#945) — **81–15** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#881) — **30–6** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 2143 BY SEABAUGH, SB 231 BY REESE (#352) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Reese — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-30** Effective date 1/1/2026.
- **2025-06-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 466. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-10** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 30 yeas and 6 nays.
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 81, nays 15. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
- **2025-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-06-02** Reported favorably (15-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 8 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2025-05-20** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 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/9bc6e183-47cb-466e-b518-652d26cf14e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).