republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-431.md

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Bill	LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault	LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 431	Louisiana HB 431 (2025)	bill		enacted	Emily Chenevert	13	25	4	2025-04-04	2025-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/217f4e80-fbf7-4bd3-8026-b17ce55726f9	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248438	2995dd9fe9dcb2857c5a44dfba09817bd55bcef853fdd2db96763455bb7e882c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 431 (2025) — LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault

Version chain

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

1. HB431 Original (filed) — source
2. HB431 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB431 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB431 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1132, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
6. House Committee Amendment, #1205, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #1471, Chenevert, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1605, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #1631, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1660, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1663, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Amendment, #2114, Luneau, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
13. HB431 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#623) — 75–22 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2114 BY LUNEAU, HB 431 BY CHENEVERT (#344) — 10–27 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#42) — 67–26 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#345) — 28–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emily Chenevert — primary (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
• Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob Landry — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
• Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
• Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28 Effective date: 01/01/2026.
• 2025-05-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 15. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-05-28 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-05-28 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-05-27 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-05-27 Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.
• 2025-05-22 Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.
• 2025-05-22 Received from the Senate with amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-21 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 9 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 67, nays 26. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-04-15 Reported with amendments (11-4-1). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/217f4e80-fbf7-4bd3-8026-b17ce55726f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).