republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024/sb-16.md

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Bill	EVIDENCE: Provides for expert testimony. (8/1/24)	EVIDENCE: Provides for expert testimony. (8/1/24)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024	SB 16	Louisiana SB 16 (2024)	bill		enacted	Thomas Pressly	4	22	2	2024-02-25	2024-05-21	openstates	ocd-bill/f612334e-5465-4c1d-ba41-f3e2f7b1d56e	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245729	b97363406185af2d3da44d309f76b04987a2922e62df22044721e369cab931d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 16 (2024) — EVIDENCE: Provides for expert testimony. (8/1/24)

Version chain

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

1. SB16 Original (filed) — source
2. SB16 Act 88 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB16 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. SB16 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#102) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#1015) — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Thomas Pressly — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-21 Effective date 8/1/2024.
• 2024-05-21 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 88. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-05-15 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2024-05-14 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2024-05-14 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2024-05-13 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2024-05-13 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-05-13 Called from the calendar.
• 2024-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2024.
• 2024-05-08 Notice given.
• 2024-05-08 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2024-05-06 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2024.
• 2024-04-24 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-04-23 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2024-04-22 Reported favorably (12-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-26 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2024-03-25 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2024-03-25 Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-03-20 Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2024-03-19 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2024-02-25 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f612334e-5465-4c1d-ba41-f3e2f7b1d56e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).