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Yes: 328 • No: 0
LouisianaHB 1782025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure
Sponsored By: Mike Johnson (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure
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11 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 8 mixed.
Borrowers face added foreclosure costs
Mortgage enforcement orders can include charges that build up through the court-ordered property sale, without stating a fixed total. The debt agreement must authorize these charges, including advances, fees, reasonable lawyer fees, and court costs. Before the sale, the creditor must file the payoff amount, including later charges. Interested people can challenge that amount before the sheriff pays out the sale money. Missing that challenge deadline does not invalidate the sale.
Some last-minute lawsuits avoid sanctions
The law protects some original lawsuit filings from sanctions under Article 863(D). The petition must be filed within 60 days of the applicable claim deadline. It must then be voluntarily dismissed or transferred to a court with proper venue. That must happen within 90 days after filing or by the hearing date on the pleading, whichever comes first.
Stronger checks against false court evidence
Louisiana lawyers must take reasonable steps to check evidence before offering it in court. They cannot knowingly encourage or offer false evidence, including artificially generated or altered evidence. They must disclose falsity they knew about or should have found through reasonable checking; violations can bring contempt or discipline. Parties must raise reasonable suspicions about an opponent's false exhibit at a pretrial conference or pretrial evidence hearing. Parties must also disclose known or reasonably apparent falsity in their own exhibits; these party duties exclude demonstrative exhibits.
Missed deadlines limit court reconsideration
Parties who miss Article 966(B) deadlines cannot ask the court to reconsider or revise a partial summary judgment. This is a ruling that decides part of a case without a trial. The court also cannot consider documents filed after those deadlines.
Jury-trial transfers bring district court fees
Eligible defendants seeking a jury trial can move a limited-jurisdiction case to district court. They must request transfer within the time to answer or within ten days after answering. Plaintiffs can oppose transfer only by agreeing the claim does not exceed $10,000, excluding interest and costs. The defendant must pay the district court filing fee, whose amount is set by court rule. Later costs accrue as though the case started in district court.
Court notices protect and trigger deadlines
Courts cannot enter default judgments without notice when Article 1702(A)(2) or (3) requires it. Plaintiffs can prove notice with a filed return receipt, courier confirmation, or proof of personal delivery's date, place, and manner. Delivering a signed judgment in open court counts as notice without mailing, and the delivery must be recorded. The seven-day periods for requesting a new trial or judgment despite the verdict exclude legal holidays. These periods run from mailing, open-court delivery, or sheriff's service of notice, as applicable.
Court restrictions determine who can sue
People under limited interdiction can sue unless their court judgment specifically restricts that ability. Interdiction is a court order limiting a person's legal decision-making powers. A court-appointed representative, called a curator, must bring claims for someone under full interdiction. A curator must also act when a limited-interdiction judgment restricts the person's ability to sue.
Faster court proceedings usually skip juries
Summary proceedings, an expedited type of civil case, receive trial preference over ordinary cases. They are tried without a jury unless another law allows one. After trial, courts must decide the case as soon as practicable. When practicable, courts must decide without taking additional time to consider the matter.
Partial claims face new appeal limits
Parties can challenge selected claims as having no legal basis without challenging every claim against a party. This applies to original claims, counterclaims, cross-claims, third-party claims, and interventions. Rulings resolving only part of a case generally cannot be appealed as final judgments unless another law allows it. Courts can no longer make those rulings final simply by finding no reason to delay an appeal. Article 1915 judgments must be written and signed; its changes apply prospectively, not to earlier-filed appeals or review requests.
Updated court-paper delivery and witness rules
Defendants lose an objection to a late service request unless they raise it through one of two required court procedures. Those procedures are an insufficient-service exception under Article 928 or a motion under Article 1672(C). When electronic service fails, parties can use another delivery method allowed by Article 1313(A). Clerks must issue witness subpoenas when the court or a party requests them. Each subpoena must bear the court seal and identify the court, case, time, and place.
Wrong venue changes lawsuit deadlines
Filing in a court with authority and proper venue interrupts the legal deadline for bringing a claim. In the wrong venue, filing interrupts that deadline only for defendants served before the deadline expires. For each defendant not served in time, the deadline pauses for seven days. These changes do not apply to claims whose deadlines expired before the law's effective date.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Mike Johnson
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/8/2025
Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
Yes: 99 • No: 0
House vote • 6/3/2025
Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
Yes: 95 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/29/2025
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 37 • No: 0
House vote • 5/6/2025
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 97 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 250.
6/11/2025HouseEffective date: 08/01/2025.
6/11/2025HouseEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
6/9/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate.
6/9/2025SenateSent to the Governor for executive approval.
6/9/2025HouseNotice Senate discharged from Conference Committee.
6/8/2025HouseRules suspended.
6/8/2025HouseReconsidered.
6/8/2025HouseCalled from the calendar.
6/8/2025HouseRead by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
6/8/2025HouseHouse conferees appointed: Mike Johnson, Muscarello, and Melerine.
6/4/2025HouseDischarged from Conference Committee.
6/4/2025HouseNotice House Conference Committee members appointed.
6/4/2025SenateNotice the House discharged the Conference Committee and concurred in the Senate amendments.
6/4/2025SenateSenate Conference Committee members discharged.
6/4/2025SenateRead by title, returned to the calendar.
6/3/2025HouseCalled from the calendar.
6/3/2025HouseRead by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
6/3/2025HouseNotice House rejected the Senate amendments.
6/3/2025SenateScheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
6/2/2025HouseRules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
5/29/2025SenateReceived from the Senate with amendments.
5/29/2025HouseReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
5/27/2025SenateRules suspended.
5/21/2025SenateRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
5/21/2025Senate
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