---
type: "Bill"
title: "MALPRACTICE: Provides relative to legal malpractice. (7/1/22)"
description: "MALPRACTICE: Provides relative to legal malpractice. (7/1/22)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Louisiana SB 103 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Franklin J. Foil"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-28"
last_action: "2022-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6e88f37-bb0d-4be3-9b8b-9c2caed397f9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241898"
source_hash: "e6819e4d7a91a1aec6a5c9490d6bb80f294541897eb24d18ddbd1ed31fe7f99f"
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 103 (2022) — MALPRACTICE: Provides relative to legal malpractice. (7/1/22)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB103 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252689)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #4795, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281066)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4799, Miller, G., Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1281070)
4. **SB103 Act 285** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1288762)
5. **SB103 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261301)
6. **SB103 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263014)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #595, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1258576)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #793, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260961)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #846, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1261252)
10. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1019, Foil, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1262514)
11. **SB103 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1283552)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1108) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR (#843) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Franklin J. Foil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-06** Effective date 7/1/2022.
- **2022-06-06** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 285. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 5/27/2022. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-26** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-25** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2022-05-24** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2022-05-24** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-24** Called from the calendar.
- **2022-05-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2022-05-17** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/24/2022.
- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-05-09** Reported favorably (12-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-04-04** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-28** 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`
- **2022-03-23** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-22** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** 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/f6e88f37-bb0d-4be3-9b8b-9c2caed397f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).