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LouisianaHB 4312025 Regular SessionHouse

LIABILITY/TORTS: Provides relative to modified comparative fault

Sponsored By: Emily Chenevert (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

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

Louisiana claimants face new limits on compensation

Beginning January 1, 2026, Louisiana bars compensation if your negligence accounts for 51% or more of the fault. This applies when your negligence and another person's fault both cause an injury, death, or loss. Below 51%, your compensation is reduced by your share of fault. Fault must be assigned to everyone responsible, even people outside the lawsuit or whose identity is unknown. This includes people unable to pay or protected by law from liability. When a jury decides comparative fault, it must be told how these rules affect compensation.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV

    Republican • House

  • Beryl Amedée

    Republican • House

  • Beth Anne Billings

    Republican • House

  • Chad Michael Boyer

    Republican • House

  • Dennis Bamburg Jr.

    Republican • House

  • Jessica Domangue

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Kimberly Landry Coates

    Republican • House

  • Larry A. Bagley

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Raymond J. Crews

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

  • Vincent E. Cox III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 170 • No: 57

House vote • 5/27/2025

Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.

Yes: 75 • No: 22

Senate vote • 5/21/2025

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.

Yes: 28 • No: 9

House vote • 4/28/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 67 • No: 26

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/28/2025Senate

  2. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2025House

  3. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 15.

    5/28/2025House

  4. Effective date: 01/01/2026.

    5/28/2025House

  5. Read by title, roll called, yeas 75, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.

    5/27/2025House

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

    5/27/2025House

  7. Received from the Senate with amendments.

    5/22/2025House

  8. Scheduled for concurrence on 05/27/2025.

    5/22/2025House

  9. 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.

    5/21/2025Senate

  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 67, nays 26. 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, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/16/2025House

  22. Reported with amendments (11-4-1).

    4/15/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  24. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

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

    4/4/2025House

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