republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2024s2/hb-23.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)	CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2024s2	HB 23	Louisiana HB 23 (2024s2)	bill		enacted	Michael Melerine	12	17	4	2024-02-20	2024-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/6da56081-4abf-4ed6-83ed-7ea2711b2f72	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245675	9df34eb1d16499f190ac40c32de5fd719e4ecf9e918464cae004d61571ee09e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 23 (2024s2) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to procedures for challenging the constitutionality of a statute or law (Item #21)

Version chain

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

1. HB23 Original (filed) — source
2. HB23 Act 12 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB23 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB23 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #81, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #86, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #118, Carter, Wilford, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. House Floor Amendment, #119, Melerine, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #233, JUDB, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #261, JUDB, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #342, Reese, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
12. HB23 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CIVIL LAW (#20) — 70–27 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#55) — 72–31 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#83) — 71–28 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#57) — 30–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael Melerine — primary (person)
• Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-05 Effective date: 04/29/2024.
• 2024-03-05 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 12. became-law, executive-signature
• 2024-02-29 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2024-02-29 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Read by title, roll called, yeas 71, nays 27, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2024-02-28 Scheduled for concurrence on 02/29/2024.
• 2024-02-28 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2024-02-28 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2024-02-27 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-25 Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2024-02-22 Scheduled for floor debate on 02/23/2024.
• 2024-02-22 Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Reported with amendments (10-3-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-20 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6da56081-4abf-4ed6-83ed-7ea2711b2f72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).