---
type: "Bill"
title: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides for procuration or mandate by a succession representative. (7/1/23)"
description: "SUCCESSIONS: Provides for procuration or mandate by a succession representative. (7/1/23)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Louisiana SB 55 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Luneau"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-27"
last_action: "2023-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3676f27c-026a-4fa2-aebc-20ccdc4f24c9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244090"
source_hash: "e9c7b2b923dd369b27a1d2a58a62ed8ac879f4d02b4e881b489396494d8da469"
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 55 (2023) — SUCCESSIONS: Provides for procuration or mandate by a succession representative. (7/1/23)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB55 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1305945)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2308, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1318656)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2584, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1320249)
4. **SB55 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329070)
5. **SB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315446)
6. **SB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326788)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#142) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR (#514) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#692) — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Luneau — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Effective date 7/1/2023.
- **2023-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 38. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2023-05-31** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-30** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2023-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2023-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2023-05-26** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2023-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/25/2023.
- **2023-05-11** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2023-05-09** Reported with amendments (9-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-01** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** 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/3676f27c-026a-4fa2-aebc-20ccdc4f24c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).