---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to bankruptcy"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to bankruptcy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 580"
citation: "Louisiana HB 580 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d395506-fcf5-4115-bd08-f351fc3b4369"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246338"
source_hash: "08232e94ca2d3cdd946226db9aa18d0f3a8fad71430165d9421d08dbbe21f13a"
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 580 (2024) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to bankruptcy

## Version chain

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

1. **HB580 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351730)
2. **HB580 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380519)
3. **HB580 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357549)
4. **HB580 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364262)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1634, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357080)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1683, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357311)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #1712, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357510)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2709, Muscarello, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364097)
9. **HB580 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375645)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#370) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#847) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 05/28/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 383. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-23** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-09** Called from the calendar.
- **2024-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Notice given.
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2024-03-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-25** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d395506-fcf5-4115-bd08-f351fc3b4369`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).