--- type: "Bill" title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims" description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 450" citation: "Louisiana HB 450 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"] version_count: 8 action_count: 23 vote_count: 3 first_action: "2025-04-04" last_action: "2025-05-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b72eee4-35a4-42e4-83ee-3ea442bde7ec" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248457" source_hash: "9ebaf7452c9f5e7f183c195b00536f8e963e415bc986b748b7fa0550140bcf12" 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 450 (2025) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB450 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403648) 2. **HB450 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419043) 3. **HB450 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405517) 4. **HB450 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409211) 5. **House Floor Amendment, #1506, Melerine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407331) 6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1694, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414482) 7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2123, Jenkins, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417160) 8. **HB450 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417437) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#341) — **28–9** (pass) · upper - FINAL PASSAGE (#48) — **68–24** (pass) · lower - AMENDMENT # 2123 BY JENKINS, HB 450 BY MELERINE (#340) — **12–25** (fail) · upper ## Sponsors - Michael Melerine — primary (person) - Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person) - Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person) - Beth Billings — cosponsor (person) - Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person) - Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person) - Chance Henry — cosponsor (person) - Charles Owen — cosponsor (person) - Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person) - Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person) - Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person) - Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person) - Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person) - Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person) - Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person) - Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person) - Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person) - Jay Galle — cosponsor (person) - Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person) - Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person) - John Wyble — cosponsor (person) - Joseph Orgeron — 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) - Michael Echols — cosponsor (person) - Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person) - Paula Davis — cosponsor (person) - Peter Egan — cosponsor (person) - Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person) - Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person) - Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person) - Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person) - Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person) - Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person) - Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person) - Shane Mack — cosponsor (person) - Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person) - Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person) - Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person) - Troy Hebert — 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: 05/28/2025. - **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `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` - **2025-04-30** 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 68, nays 24. 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2025-04-15** Reported favorably (13-0-1). `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/7b72eee4-35a4-42e4-83ee-3ea442bde7ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).