republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/hb-842.md

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Bill	ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty	ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	HB 842	Louisiana HB 842 (2022)	bill		enacted	Wayne McMahen	9	18	2	2022-03-21	2022-05-17	openstates	ocd-bill/329d29a0-f46c-4023-8601-7166136361ac	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242787	5e6297ed030200e7c3e5ac1006df8a325f2da96a4679ae5bab3516f8863a3f23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 842 (2022) — ANIMALS/CRUELTY: Provides relative to liability for veterinary professionals for the reporting of animal cruelty

Version chain

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

1. HB842 Original (filed) — source
2. HB842 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB842 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB842 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2155, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2260, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. House Committee Amendment, #2359, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #2547, McMahen, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB842 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#535) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#381) — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wayne McMahen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-17 Effective date: 08/01/2022.
• 2022-05-17 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 59. executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2022-05-15 Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/12/2022.
• 2022-05-12 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2022-05-11 Received from the Senate without amendments.
• 2022-05-11 Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2022-05-09 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2022-05-04 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2022-05-03 Reported favorably.
• 2022-04-25 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
• 2022-04-20 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2022-04-18 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/20/2022.
• 2022-04-12 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
• 2022-04-11 Reported with amendments (10-0-1).
• 2022-03-22 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2022-03-21 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/329d29a0-f46c-4023-8601-7166136361ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).