---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security"
description: "CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 434"
citation: "Louisiana HB 434 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-04-04"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248441"
source_hash: "3f8d9f294896c99fc7d8b94aafb9bb74c25979623ea79326df925b3bd641d074"
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 434 (2025) — CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security

## Version chain

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

1. **HB434 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403627)
2. **HB434 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419041)
3. **HB434 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405636)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1092, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1404911)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1209, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405605)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1649, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414130)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2117, Duplessis, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417125)
8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2119, Duplessis, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417144)
9. **HB434 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417433)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#44) — **76–14** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 2117 BY DUPLESSIS, HB 434 BY DEWITT (#342) — **11–26** (fail) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
- Gabe Firment — 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)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-22** Received from the Senate without 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 14. 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 (11-2-1). `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/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).