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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability protection for local governments concerning events on the Mississippi River levee"
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description: "LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability protection for local governments concerning events on the Mississippi River levee"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 842"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 842 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jeffery \"Jeff\" Wiley"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2024-04-02"
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last_action: "2024-06-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b7ce707-49e0-4e20-9b9a-efbb439827c4"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246991"
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source_hash: "0996b7313ea7b3befe534f0b45346ec61585ca8f2c84f818a025933ee04f1103"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
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---
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# Louisiana HB 842 (2024) — LIABILITY/CIVIL: Provides relative to civil liability protection for local governments concerning events on the Mississippi River levee
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB842 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360305)
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2. **HB842 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1381933)
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3. **HB842 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1363156)
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4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2706, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370088)
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5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2786, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1370349)
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6. **HB842 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1377165)
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## Votes
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- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1185) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#648) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#473) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jeffery "Jeff" Wiley — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-06-03** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
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- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 454. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2024-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2024-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2024-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2024-05-21** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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- **2024-05-20** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/21/2024.
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- **2024-05-14** Received from the Senate with amendments. `receipt`
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- **2024-05-13** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
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- **2024-05-06** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2024-05-01** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2024-04-30** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2024-04-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2024-04-11** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/15/2024.
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- **2024-04-09** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2024-04-08** Reported favorably (11-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-04-03** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-02** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b7ce707-49e0-4e20-9b9a-efbb439827c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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