2025 Regular Session
HB291
Provides relative to prescriptive periods for wrongful death and survival actions
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
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EXTENDS RX on wrongful death and survival action from one to two years.
Recorded floor votes
4 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 28, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 291 FINAL PASSAGE (#37)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
90 yea–5 nay · 9 absent
April 28, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 291 FINAL PASSAGE (#37)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
90 yea–6 nay · 8 absent
May 28, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 291 FINAL PASSAGE (#439)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
June 3, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 291 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#800)
Passed
94 yea–0 nay · 11 absent
Committee referrals
April 30, 2025 · Senate
Judiciary A
April 2, 2025 · House
Civil Law and Procedure
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 08/01/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 176.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate 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. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported with amendments.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 6. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
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House Called from the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2025.
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House Notice given.
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House Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/24/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (12-0-1).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
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House Prefiled.