---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault"
description: "LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Louisiana HB 431 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emily Chenevert"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/217f4e80-fbf7-4bd3-8026-b17ce55726f9"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248438"
source_hash: "2995dd9fe9dcb2857c5a44dfba09817bd55bcef853fdd2db96763455bb7e882c"
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 431 (2025) — LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault

## Version chain

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

1. **HB431 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403621)
2. **HB431 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419039)
3. **HB431 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405618)
4. **HB431 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409230)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1132, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405151)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1205, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405580)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1471, Chenevert, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407072)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1605, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1413885)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1631, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414026)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1660, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414193)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1663, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414216)
12. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2114, Luneau, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417121)
13. **HB431 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1418212)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#623) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2114 BY LUNEAU, HB 431 BY CHENEVERT (#344) — **10–27** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — **67–26** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#345) — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emily Chenevert — primary (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 01/01/2026.
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 15. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.
- **2025-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
- **2025-04-24** Notice given.
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
- **2025-04-16** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Reported with amendments (11-4-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/217f4e80-fbf7-4bd3-8026-b17ce55726f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).