republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2025/sb-39.md

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Bill	LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)	LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2025	SB 39	Louisiana SB 39 (2025)	bill		enacted	Jay Morris	13	18	4	2025-03-31	2025-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/94c97fb7-6456-4d46-a3ba-de1c875d8300	https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248094	fd7d886b98c94ef162d603403ccc3de8d35efaca078ff492ce3b710acc49a4fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-la

Louisiana SB 39 (2025) — LIABILITY: Provides for limitation of liability of public entities for false imprisonment of an offender sentenced to a term of imprisonment. (8/1/25)

Version chain

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

1. SB39 Original (filed) — source
2. House Floor Amendment, #3897, Marcelle, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
3. House Floor Amendment, #4030, Jordan, Rejected (committee substitute) — source
4. SB39 Act (committee substitute) — source
5. SB39 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. SB39 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Committee Amendment, #1007, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Committee Amendment, #1009, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Committee Amendment, #1202, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Committee Amendment, #1346, JUDA, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
11. Senate Committee Amendment, #1639, JUDA, Draft (committee substitute) — source
12. Senate Floor Bureau Note, #2002, Morris, Jay, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
13. SB39 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMENDMENT # 3897 BY MARCELLE, MOTION TO ADOPT (#828) — 31–67 (fail) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE (#283) — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE (#830) — 55–40 (pass) · lower
• AMENDMENT # 4030 BY JORDAN, MOTION TO ADOPT (#829) — 39–58 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Jay Morris — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-11 Effective date 8/1/2025.
• 2025-06-11 Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 317. became-law, executive-signature
• 2025-06-09 Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. executive-receipt
• 2025-06-08 Signed by the Speaker of the House.
• 2025-06-08 Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. enrolled
• 2025-06-08 Received from the House without amendments. receipt
• 2025-06-03 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 55, nays 40. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. passage
• 2025-06-02 Scheduled for floor debate on 06/03/2025.
• 2025-05-29 Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. reading-3
• 2025-05-28 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
• 2025-05-27 Reported favorably (11-2). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22 Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
• 2025-05-20 Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 8 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. passage
• 2025-05-19 Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
• 2025-05-14 Reported with amendments. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-14 Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. filing, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94c97fb7-6456-4d46-a3ba-de1c875d8300. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).