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LouisianaHB 722025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts

Sponsored By: Jason Brian DeWitt (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Judiciary ACivil Law and Procedure

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

New lawsuit deadlines for school debts

The law sets a 30-year deadline to sue over covered debts owed to Louisiana charities, schools, or funds left for charity or education. This also covers education debts owed to the state or its agencies, including student loans, stipends, and benefits. Federal Family Education Loan Program debts are excluded from that deadline. Other debts owed to Louisiana public colleges have a 10-year deadline, excluding student loans, stipends, and benefits. Both deadlines require written evidence of the debt, with “writing” defined by Louisiana Code of Evidence Article 1001. The law applies retroactively but does not revive debts already decided by a court by its effective date.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jason Brian DeWitt

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Chance Keith Henry

    Republican • House

  • Michael "Gabe" Firment

    Republican • House

  • John E. Wyble

    Republican • House

  • Kim Carver

    Republican • House

  • Mike Johnson

    Republican • House

  • Roger William Wilder III

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/29/2025

Rules suspended. 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 • 5/12/2025

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

House vote • 5/6/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 12 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/3/2025House

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

    6/2/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/2/2025Senate

  6. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/29/2025Senate

  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/29/2025House

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

    5/27/2025Senate

  9. Rules suspended.

    5/21/2025Senate

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

    5/21/2025Senate

  11. Reported favorably.

    5/20/2025Senate

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

    5/13/2025Senate

  13. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/12/2025House

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

    5/12/2025Senate

  15. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.

    5/8/2025House

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

    5/7/2025House

  17. Reported favorably (12-0).

    5/6/2025House

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

    4/14/2025House

  19. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/21/2025.

    3/21/2025House

  20. Prefiled.

    3/14/2025House

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

    3/14/2025House

  22. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.

    3/14/2025House

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