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Louisiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 72: PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 72 is a bill introduced in the Louisiana House on March 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: PRESCRIPTION: Provides relative to prescription of certain debts. Primary sponsor: Jason DeWitt (Republican). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 8, 2025): Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jason DeWittPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Kim CarverCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse89
Gabe FirmentCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse22
Chance HenryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse42
Mike JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse27
Roger WilderCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse71
John WybleCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse75

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 133.
  2. Effective date: 08/01/2025.
  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.
  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.
  7. Received from the Senate without amendments.
  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
  9. Rules suspended.
  10. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
  11. Reported favorably.
  12. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source