---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for commercial motor vehicles"
description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for commercial motor vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 785"
citation: "Louisiana HB 785 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodney Schamerhorn"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-26"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/379e0540-0005-4ce6-9d37-788a6837757d"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246895"
source_hash: "b905409de3187ad0c52cc1a23dd78974bc5f65fed9c36536e3a4601eb46e5311"
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 785 (2024) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for commercial motor vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **HB785 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1358034)
2. **HB785 Act 490** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1382083)
3. **HB785 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363172)
4. **HB785 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1365473)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2634, Glorioso, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363711)
6. **HB785 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1376802)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#1004) — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#469) — **100–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 490. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-24** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-14** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/379e0540-0005-4ce6-9d37-788a6837757d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).