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LouisianaHB 2912025 Regular SessionHouse

CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to prescriptive periods for wrongful death and survival actions

Sponsored By: Jack "Jay" William Gallé Jr. (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Longer lawsuit deadlines after a person's death

The law changes deadlines for wrongful death claims and survival claims seeking damages for harm suffered before death. Outside medical malpractice, both deadlines are the later of one year after death or two years after the injury or damage. Medical malpractice survival claims follow the separate deadline rules in R.S. 9:5628. Medical malpractice wrongful death claims have a deadline of one year after death.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jack "Jay" William Gallé Jr.

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Alonzo L. Knox

    Democratic • House

  • Roy Daryl Adams

    Democratic • House

  • Joe Stagni

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Larry A. Bagley

    Republican • House

  • Lauren Ventrella

    Republican • House

  • Michael Robert Bayham Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • R. Dewith Carrier

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Robby Carter

    Democratic • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Sylvia Elaine Taylor

    Democratic • House

  • Tehmi Jahi Chassion

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 220 • No: 6

House vote • 6/3/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/28/2025

The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 4/28/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 90 • No: 6

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 176.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.

    6/2/2025House

  8. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/29/2025House

  9. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/28/2025Senate

  10. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/20/2025Senate

  11. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2025Senate

  12. Reported with amendments.

    5/14/2025Senate

  13. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

    4/30/2025Senate

  14. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/29/2025Senate

  15. Called from the calendar.

    4/28/2025House

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/28/2025House

  17. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/24/2025House

  18. Notice given.

    4/24/2025House

  19. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.

    4/24/2025House

  20. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.

    4/23/2025House

  21. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/16/2025House

  22. Reported favorably (12-0-1).

    4/15/2025House

  23. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    4/14/2025House

  24. Prefiled.

    4/2/2025House

  25. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

    4/2/2025House

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