---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 27"
citation: "Louisiana HB 27 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da6aaafa-d6d2-49cd-9588-3693802b9598"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245543"
source_hash: "6ccc2a89643ee69c944cf4b0d2d80faacd7f50e183a2107f62fc1220dee4459c"
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 27 (2024) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Authorizes service of process by commercial courier

## Version chain

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

1. **HB27 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1341191)
2. **HB27 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379485)
3. **HB27 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1353814)
4. **HB27 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374785)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#7) — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#729) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Melerine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-15** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-19** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-18** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 105, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/18/2024.
- **2024-03-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-12** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 1/26/2024.
- **2024-01-24** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da6aaafa-d6d2-49cd-9588-3693802b9598`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).