republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/hb-72.md

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Bill	PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts	PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	HB 72	Louisiana HB 72 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jason Dewitt	4	22	2	2025-03-14	2025-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6aec0781-0daf-4aeb-87a3-9b6aa83eaaeb	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=247959	ba2c7f7e38f6f48b8072dbdf515db5c0fb055a49a7c8d6b6735c42ed68db0455	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana HB 72 (2025) — PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts

Version chain

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

1. HB72 Original (filed) — source
2. HB72 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB72 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB72 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE (#459) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#323) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason Dewitt — primary (person)
• Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
• John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
• Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Roger Wilder III — 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. 133. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-03 Sent to the Governor for executive approval. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-02 Signed by the President of the Senate.
• 2025-06-02 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. enrolled
• 2025-05-29 Received from the Senate without amendments. receipt
• 2025-05-29 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-27 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
• 2025-05-13 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-12 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. reading-1
• 2025-05-12 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-05-08 Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
• 2025-05-07 Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Reported favorably (12-0). committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.
• 2025-03-14 First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
• 2025-03-14 Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-03-14 Prefiled. filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6aec0781-0daf-4aeb-87a3-9b6aa83eaaeb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).