--- type: "Bill" title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure" description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure" jurisdiction: "us/states/la" legislature: "Louisiana Legislature" session: "2023" identifier: "HB 230" citation: "Louisiana HB 230 (2023)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"] version_count: 6 action_count: 20 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2023-03-27" last_action: "2023-05-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d714f65d-bdf6-490f-9983-90461c109977" source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244102" source_hash: "fa7547ac319ca4648a82b68b92e90ddad4ab310fefcd000a5e7fc4267a16999f" 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 230 (2023) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB230 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1306112) 2. **HB230 Act 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325910) 3. **HB230 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312671) 4. **HB230 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314196) 5. **House Floor Amendment, #1472, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313755) 6. **HB230 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1321148) ## Votes - FINAL PASSAGE (#58) — **100–0** (pass) · lower - FINAL PASSAGE (#277) — **35–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Gregory A. Miller — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-05-23** Effective date: 08/01/2023. - **2023-05-23** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 5. `became-law, executive-signature` - **2023-05-16** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt` - **2023-05-15** Signed by the President of the Senate. - **2023-05-11** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled` - **2023-05-10** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt` - **2023-05-10** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage` - **2023-05-04** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3` - **2023-05-03** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. - **2023-05-02** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-04-25** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee` - **2023-04-24** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1` - **2023-04-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage` - **2023-04-19** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2023. - **2023-04-19** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3` - **2023-04-18** Reported favorably (11-0). `committee-passage-favorable` - **2023-04-10** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2023-04-03** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/3/2023. - **2023-03-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee` - **2023-03-27** Prefiled. `filing` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d714f65d-bdf6-490f-9983-90461c109977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).