---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability associated with parades"
description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability associated with parades"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 379"
citation: "Louisiana HB 379 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott McKnight"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-30"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/401f3ae0-840e-49e8-9869-de1b1c3f0506"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244302"
source_hash: "29139e106f23170a7a38538f1d7650c5a61c68b36c3ae46018366ff1e20339f7"
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 379 (2023) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability associated with parades

## Version chain

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

1. **HB379 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1308450)
2. **Conference Committee Report, #4078, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329944)
3. **HB379 Act 407** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332746)
4. **HB379 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312630)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1784, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322416)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1798, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322506)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2207, Cloud, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325868)
8. **HB379 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331758)

## Votes

- ADOPT (#993) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1191) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#442) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#59) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#740) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott McKnight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2023.
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 407. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2023-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2023-06-08** Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
- **2023-06-07** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/08/2023.
- **2023-06-07** Conference committee report received.
- **2023-06-07** Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
- **2023-06-05** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2023-06-05** House conferees appointed: McKnight, Gregory Miller, and Ivey.
- **2023-06-02** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
- **2023-06-02** Senate conference committee members appointed: Stine, Peacock, and Luneau.
- **2023-05-30** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2023-05-30** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2023-05-25** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/30/2023.
- **2023-05-25** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2023-05-16** Reported with amendments. `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 (9-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023.
- **2023-03-30** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/401f3ae0-840e-49e8-9869-de1b1c3f0506`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).