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type: "Bill"
title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides for the limitation of civil liability for agents, contractors, and representatives of proprietors"
description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides for the limitation of civil liability for agents, contractors, and representatives of proprietors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 517"
citation: "Louisiana HB 517 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Polly Thomas"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae55add7-394c-4573-8f17-e9b712596723"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240471"
source_hash: "76cdd97ae26f24007bdad0503de0ee21a4127339d3944ff711c17562aa657a44"
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 517 (2021) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides for the limitation of civil liability for agents, contractors, and representatives of proprietors
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB517 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211677)
2. **HB517 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235326)
3. **HB517 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215943)
4. **HB517 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217336)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1347, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215133)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1443, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1215893)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1575, Thomas, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216546)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2377, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226617)
9. **HB517 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230984)
## Votes
- FINAL PASSAGE (#606) — **2711** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#66) — **970** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#932) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Polly Thomas — primary (person)
- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 245. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-28** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-26** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/26/2021.
- **2021-04-22** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-21** Reported with amendments (12-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae55add7-394c-4573-8f17-e9b712596723`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).