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Bill LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig) LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig) us/states/la Louisiana Legislature 2020 SB 491 Louisiana SB 491 (2020)
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Louisiana SB 491 (2020) — LIABILITY: Limits liability of persons who provide relief or recovery equipment or services during a declared state emergency. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

  1. SB491 Original (filed) — source
  2. SB491 Act 303 (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB491 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB491 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
  5. Senate Committee Amendment, #1131, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
  6. Senate Floor Amendment, #1366, Hewitt, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
  7. SB491 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • FINAL PASSAGE (#194) — 286 (pass) · upper
  • FINAL PASSAGE (#555) — 990 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
  • Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
  • Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
  • Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
  • Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
  • Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
  • Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
  • Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
  • Mary DuBuisson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
  • Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
  • Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
  • Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
  • Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
  • Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
  • William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-06-12 Effective date 6/12/2020.
  • 2020-06-12 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 303. executive-signature
  • 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. executive-receipt
  • 2020-06-01 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  • 2020-05-31 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  • 2020-05-29 Received from the House without amendments.
  • 2020-05-29 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
  • 2020-05-26 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
  • 2020-05-26 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
  • 2020-05-26 Rules suspended.
  • 2020-05-26 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
  • 2020-05-26 Reported favorably (13-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  • 2020-05-15 Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
  • 2020-05-14 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 6 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
  • 2020-05-07 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
  • 2020-05-04 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
  • 2020-03-31 Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b21c848-6015-45ec-8d5c-cc903b752332. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).