republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-291.md

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Bill	CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to prescriptive periods for wrongful death and survival actions	CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to prescriptive periods for wrongful death and survival actions	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 291	Louisiana HB 291 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jay Galle	9	25	3	2025-04-02	2025-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/74a81812-b84b-48e2-989e-1e230c90b576	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248256	91780b0a35a4b42425d8a14e2b24db339e60864b898bb5fde7d3472bf7f4547c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 291 (2025) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to prescriptive periods for wrongful death and survival actions

Version chain

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

1. HB291 Original (filed) — source
2. HB291 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB291 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB291 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Floor Amendment, #1831, Melerine, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #1840, Galle, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1635, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1636, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. HB291 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#439) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#37) — 90–6 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#800) — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jay Galle — primary (person)
• Alonzo Knox — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Stagni — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Lauren Ventrella — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bayham — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Sylvia Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-08 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 176. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-05 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-04 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-04 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-06-03 Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
• 2025-05-29 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-28 The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-20 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. reading-3
• 2025-05-19 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-14 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-30 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-04-28 Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-04-28 Called from the calendar.
• 2025-04-24 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
• 2025-04-24 Notice given.
• 2025-04-24 Read by title, returned to the calendar.
• 2025-04-23 Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
• 2025-04-16 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Reported favorably (12-0-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74a81812-b84b-48e2-989e-1e230c90b576. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).