republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-434.md

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Bill	CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security	CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 434	Louisiana HB 434 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jason Dewitt	9	23	3	2025-04-04	2025-05-28	openstates	ocd-bill/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248441	3f8d9f294896c99fc7d8b94aafb9bb74c25979623ea79326df925b3bd641d074	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 434 (2025) — CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security

Version chain

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

1. HB434 Original (filed) — source
2. HB434 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB434 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Committee Amendment, #1092, CL&P, Draft (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1209, CL&P, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Committee Amendment, #1649, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor Amendment, #2117, Duplessis, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor Amendment, #2119, Duplessis, Withdrawn (committee substitute) — source
9. HB434 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#44) — 76–14 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 2117 BY DUPLESSIS, HB 434 BY DEWITT (#342) — 11–26 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#343) — 28–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
• Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
• Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
• Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Fontenot — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
• Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — 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)
• Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Melerine — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
• Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
• Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-28 Effective date: 08/01/2025.
• 2025-05-28 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-05-28 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-05-27 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-05-22 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-05-22 Received from the Senate without 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 Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
• 2025-05-14 Reported favorably. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-29 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-04-28 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 14. 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 (11-2-1). 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/12fbcfcc-7efc-48d1-af1e-a2f97671ccf5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).