---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides for the continuous revision of successions. (8/1/25)"
description: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides for the continuous revision of successions. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 67"
citation: "Louisiana SB 67 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-02"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93ed8c8e-b659-466d-90a9-563d68ad05f4"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248223"
source_hash: "5247410a744d48638d923c5b453cdeaffb82ffd12b574ce2ad528a16ab12751e"
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 67 (2025) — SUCCESSIONS: Provides for the continuous revision of successions. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB67 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1401963)
2. **SB67 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422216)
3. **SB67 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407509)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #713, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407039)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #742, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407249)
6. **SB67 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417899)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#92) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#588) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 34. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-23** 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`
- **2025-04-02** 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/93ed8c8e-b659-466d-90a9-563d68ad05f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).