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LouisianaHB 4342025 Regular SessionHouse

CIVIL/DAMAGES: Provides relative to recovery limitations for failure to maintain compulsory motor vehicle liability security

Sponsored By: Jason Brian DeWitt (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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Less crash compensation involving uninsured drivers

For crash claims against uninsured owners or drivers, the injury amount barred from recovery rises from $15,000 to $100,000. The property damage amount barred from recovery rises from $25,000 to $100,000. Uninsured owners or drivers who sue must pay every party’s court costs if their injury award is $100,000 or less. This court-cost rule applies even when they were not at fault. Insurers keep rights to seek repayment above both $100,000 limits, including when no lawsuit is filed.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    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

  • Emily Chenevert

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • Josh Carlson

    Republican • House

  • Julie Emerson

    Affiliation unavailable

  • Kathy Edmonston

    Republican • House

  • Kellee Hennessy Dickerson

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Michael Charles Echols

    Republican • House

  • Peter F. Egan Sr.

    Republican • House

  • Phillip DeVillier

    Republican • House

  • Rhonda Gaye Butler

    Republican • House

  • Ryan Bourriaque

    Republican • House

  • Stephanie H. Berault

    Republican • House

  • Tony Bacala

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 104 • No: 23

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, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 76 • No: 14

Actions Timeline

  1. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/28/2025House

  2. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 16.

    5/28/2025House

  3. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    5/28/2025House

  4. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/27/2025Senate

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/22/2025House

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

    5/22/2025House

  7. 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

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

    5/20/2025Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/19/2025Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    5/14/2025Senate

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

    4/29/2025Senate

  12. Called from the calendar.

    4/28/2025House

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 14. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/28/2025House

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

    4/28/2025Senate

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/24/2025House

  16. Notice given.

    4/24/2025House

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

    4/24/2025House

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

    4/23/2025House

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

    4/16/2025House

  20. Reported with amendments (11-2-1).

    4/15/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  22. Prefiled.

    4/4/2025House

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

    4/4/2025House

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