republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2020/sb-508.md

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Bill	LIABILITY: Limits liability for restaurants that provide food-to-go during the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)	LIABILITY: Limits liability for restaurants that provide food-to-go during the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2020	SB 508	Louisiana SB 508 (2020)	bill		enacted	Patrick McMath	11	19	3	2020-03-31	2020-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/91fe3b8a-b15e-4c71-bd57-8cd5c06b8d8c	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238871	a38b91be538f1f31cd95256f3e6dbf0524d1ea027e465ee47bcb87e81236ef44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 508 (2020) — LIABILITY: Limits liability for restaurants that provide food-to-go during the COVID-19 public health emergency. (gov sig)

Version chain

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

1. SB508 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #2713, Carter, Robby, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #2787, Pressly, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. SB508 Act 305 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB508 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB508 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1133, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #1169, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1254, McMath, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1192, Mills, Fred, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. SB508 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#557) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#197) — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR (#650) — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick McMath — primary (person)
• Rick Edmonds — 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. 305. executive-signature
• 2020-06-01 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. executive-receipt
• 2020-06-01 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2020-06-01 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2020-05-31 Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays.
• 2020-05-29 Received from the House with amendments.
• 2020-05-29 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, 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 (12-0-1). 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 31 yeas and 3 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2020-05-11 Senate floor amendments read and adopted; read by title and returned to its regular order on third reading and final 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/91fe3b8a-b15e-4c71-bd57-8cd5c06b8d8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).