---
type: "Bill"
title: "ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty"
description: "ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 842"
citation: "Louisiana HB 842 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne McMahen"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-21"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/329d29a0-f46c-4023-8601-7166136361ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242787"
source_hash: "5e6297ed030200e7c3e5ac1006df8a325f2da96a4679ae5bab3516f8863a3f23"
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 842 (2022) — ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty

## Version chain

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

1. **HB842 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260600)
2. **HB842 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281031)
3. **HB842 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268624)
4. **HB842 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1271858)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2155, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267813)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2260, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267815)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2359, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268573)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2547, McMahen, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1269429)
9. **HB842 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278585)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 59. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-05-09** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-05-04** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-05-03** Reported favorably.
- **2022-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2022-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-04-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2022.
- **2022-04-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-11** Reported with amendments (10-0-1).
- **2022-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** 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/329d29a0-f46c-4023-8601-7166136361ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).