---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 196"
citation: "Louisiana HB 196 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-24"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f443bdb4-0f2a-4506-bb86-49a4040984e3"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244054"
source_hash: "a9df70ee312799c23a1c4aa58e89c3a49f8c434ec818db0bfb86de84a10c9f30"
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 196 (2023) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to summary judgment

## Version chain

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

1. **HB196 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305136)
2. **HB196 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332475)
3. **HB196 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312649)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2183, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325602)
5. **HB196 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330750)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1024) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chad Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-07** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-07** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-06** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/06/2023.
- **2023-06-04** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-06-04** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2023.
- **2023-04-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Reported favorably (10-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/24/2023.
- **2023-03-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f443bdb4-0f2a-4506-bb86-49a4040984e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).