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type: "Bill"
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title: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims"
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description: "EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
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legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 450"
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citation: "Louisiana HB 450 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Michael Melerine"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-04-04"
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last_action: "2025-05-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b72eee4-35a4-42e4-83ee-3ea442bde7ec"
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source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248457"
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source_hash: "9ebaf7452c9f5e7f183c195b00536f8e963e415bc986b748b7fa0550140bcf12"
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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 450 (2025) — EVIDENCE: Provides relative to evidentiary presumptions in personal injury claims
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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. **HB450 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403648)
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2. **HB450 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1419043)
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3. **HB450 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405517)
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4. **HB450 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1409211)
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5. **House Floor Amendment, #1506, Melerine, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407331)
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6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1694, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1414482)
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7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #2123, Jenkins, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417160)
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8. **HB450 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417437)
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## Votes
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#341) — **28–9** (pass) · upper
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- FINAL PASSAGE (#48) — **68–24** (pass) · lower
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- AMENDMENT # 2123 BY JENKINS, HB 450 BY MELERINE (#340) — **12–25** (fail) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Michael Melerine — primary (person)
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- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
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- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
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- Beth Billings — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
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- Chad Boyer — cosponsor (person)
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- Chance Henry — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
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- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
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- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
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- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
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- Dennis Bamburg Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Dixon McMakin — cosponsor (person)
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- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
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- Emily Chenevert — cosponsor (person)
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- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
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- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)
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- Jay Galle — cosponsor (person)
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- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
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- Jessica Domangue — cosponsor (person)
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- John Wyble — cosponsor (person)
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- Joseph Orgeron — cosponsor (person)
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- Josh Carlson — cosponsor (person)
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- Julie Emerson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
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- Kellee Dickerson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Coates — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Bagley — cosponsor (person)
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- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
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- Peter Egan — cosponsor (person)
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- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
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- Phillip Tarver — cosponsor (person)
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- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
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- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Schamerhorn — cosponsor (person)
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- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
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- Ryan Bourriaque — cosponsor (person)
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- Shane Mack — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
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- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
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- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
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- Troy Hebert — cosponsor (person)
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- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
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- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-05-28** Effective date: 05/28/2025.
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- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 18. `became-law, executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-28** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-27** Signed by the President of the Senate.
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- **2025-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
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- **2025-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
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- **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`
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- **2025-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
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- **2025-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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- **2025-05-14** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
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- **2025-04-28** Called from the calendar.
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- **2025-04-24** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
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- **2025-04-24** Notice given.
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- **2025-04-24** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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- **2025-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
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- **2025-04-16** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-15** Reported favorably (13-0-1). `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Prefiled. `filing`
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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/7b72eee4-35a4-42e4-83ee-3ea442bde7ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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