---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for continuous revisions relative to civil procedure"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for continuous revisions relative to civil procedure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Louisiana HB 227 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-27"
last_action: "2024-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7949444-f526-4328-97dc-a9b8a038c9d1"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245840"
source_hash: "d5356d1828f23aec84600221a89be1f8bb6507c7bc6ab7ae58f9a7edb2ff9e46"
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 227 (2024) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for continuous revisions relative to civil procedure

## Version chain

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

1. **HB227 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1347487)
2. **HB227 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1380498)
3. **HB227 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357482)
4. **HB227 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361537)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1628, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357042)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1642, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357437)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1979, Muscarello, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359077)
8. **HB227 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1374891)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#156) — **101–1** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#736) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-28** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 371. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-15** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-14** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-04-22** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-04-16** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-02** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/02/2024.
- **2024-03-26** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-03-25** Reported with amendments (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-11** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7949444-f526-4328-97dc-a9b8a038c9d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).