---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRESCRIPTION: Extends prescription on tort actions"
description: "PRESCRIPTION: Extends prescription on tort actions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 315"
citation: "Louisiana HB 315 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/171e9825-8d4a-4f9a-9a78-768d5ed104e7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245953"
source_hash: "28931fa8a80846f8aa521a457165451888a911ec2e515a4326dcfbac79c9b49d"
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 315 (2024) — PRESCRIPTION: Extends prescription on tort actions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB315 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1349148)
2. **HB315 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381901)
3. **HB315 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356180)
4. **HB315 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357651)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1467, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1356158)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1688, Johnson, Mike, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357341)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1718, Wright, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357454)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #4033, Seabaugh, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377361)
9. **HB315 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377542)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1074) — **28–9** (pass) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 4033 BY SEABAUGH, HB 315 BY JOHNSON, M. (#1073) — **9–28** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#79) — **83–18** (pass) · lower
- CO-AUTHORS (#1075) — **9–0** (fail) · upper
- AMENDMENT # 1718 BY WRIGHT, MOTION TO ADOPT (#78) — **18–84** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 07/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 423. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-21** Rules suspended. Called from the Calendar.
- **2024-05-16** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended.
- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-01** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-30** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-25** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 83, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 03/25/2024.
- **2024-03-21** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-20** Reported with amendments (13-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/171e9825-8d4a-4f9a-9a78-768d5ed104e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).