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type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 178"
citation: "Louisiana HB 178 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Johnson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19b3c326-73a1-4bae-a394-612a1e621e98"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248099"
source_hash: "8b9df7f065d809474229c8e75aade0d4fd366e06440e233f9e08287fdd96cf6f"
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 178 (2025) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB178 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1400404)
2. **HB178 Act 250** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1425558)
3. **HB178 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409050)
4. **House Committee Amendment, #1794, CL&P, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1408851)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1818, CL&P, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409026)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2462, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419374)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2471, Morris, Jay, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419464)
8. **HB178 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422715)
## Votes
- REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#813) — **950** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#939) — **990** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#219) — **970** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#465) — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mike Johnson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2025.
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2025-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2025-06-08** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-08** Reconsidered.
- **2025-06-08** Rules suspended.
- **2025-06-08** Notice Senate discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2025-06-04** Senate Conference Committee members discharged.
- **2025-06-04** Notice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-04** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
- **2025-06-04** Discharged from Conference Committee.
- **2025-06-04** House conferees appointed: Mike Johnson, Muscarello, and Melerine.
- **2025-06-03** Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
- **2025-06-03** Called from the calendar.
- **2025-06-03** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2025-06-02** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
- **2025-05-29** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-29** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-21** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2025-05-21** Rules suspended.
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-07** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-06** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2025.
- **2025-04-29** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** Reported with amendments (10-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Prefiled. `filing`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19b3c326-73a1-4bae-a394-612a1e621e98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).