---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)"
description: "LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "Louisiana SB 39 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Morris"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94c97fb7-6456-4d46-a3ba-de1c875d8300"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248094"
source_hash: "fd7d886b98c94ef162d603403ccc3de8d35efaca078ff492ce3b710acc49a4fc"
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 SB 39 (2025) — LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB39 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400326)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #3897, Marcelle, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1420369)
3. **House Floor Amendment, #4030, Jordan, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421226)
4. **SB39 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425495)
5. **SB39 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414644)
6. **SB39 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416696)
7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1007, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409592)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1009, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409604)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1202, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1410924)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1346, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1412103)
11. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1639, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414082)
12. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2002, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1416424)
13. **SB39 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1421490)

## Votes

- AMENDMENT # 3897 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#828) — **31–67** (fail) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#830) — **55–40** (pass) · lower
- AMENDMENT # 4030 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#829) — **39–58** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jay Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 40. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-27** Reported favorably (11-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-05-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-05-14** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94c97fb7-6456-4d46-a3ba-de1c875d8300`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).