republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/hb-784.md

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Bill	LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock	LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	HB 784	Louisiana HB 784 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rodney Schamerhorn	8	18	3	2024-03-26	2024-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246893	e451b334ec25c0a72558865b2020e26d43b4529d06950456405a700de32e30df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 784 (2024) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to liability for damages caused by livestock

Version chain

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

1. HB784 Original (filed) — source
2. HB784 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB784 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB784 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #2259, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #2585, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2888, Schamerhorn, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB784 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#467) — 98–5 (pass) · lower
• CO-AUTHORS (#901) — 10–0 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#900) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rodney Schamerhorn — primary (person)
• Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
• Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
• C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
• Joy Walters — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
• Vanessa Caston LaFleur — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-23 Effective date: 08/01/2024.
• 2024-05-23 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 252. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-21 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
• 2024-05-20 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-16 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-05-06 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-05-01 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2024-04-30 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-17 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2024-04-15 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-04-11 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
• 2024-04-09 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-08 Reported with amendments (8-3-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2024-03-26 Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7905bde4-5f21-4b8c-b6c7-ea2aa50f2bc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).