SB 67 Louisiana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

SUCCESSIONS: Provides for the continuous revision of successions. (8/1/25)

SB 67 is a procedural bill that requires courts to regularly review succession laws (such as inheritance or office succession rules). It makes a minor grammatical correction to the bill text and changes "may" to "shall" to mandate continuous review. The bill does not create new policies, affect specific groups, or change existing succession procedures. It passed the Senate unanimously with no debate or opposition. This is a technical amendment focused solely on procedural requirements for reviewing existing succession laws.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

Apr 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Apr 2, 2025 Signed Jun 4, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB67 Original → SB67 Act · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill updates the formal title and sponsors of the legislation to reflect its final enactment status. It also refines the procedural rules for probating wills by clarifying that oral objections must be immediately followed by an opportunity to examine the document, and it adds a specific requirement for courts to order the payment of inheritance taxes from succession assets when an indigent party litigates without prepaying costs.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on succession law and probate procedures, but the applicability of the cost-payment rule is now explicitly extended to succession proceedings involving indigent parties.

TECHNICAL

Updated the document header to change the status from 'Original' to 'Enrolled Act No. 34' and added additional representatives to the list of sponsors.

REQUIREMENT

Clarified the objection process for wills by requiring that an oral objection must specify grounds for invalidity and be urged immediately after the objector examines the testament.

Added a new provision requiring courts to order the payment of all costs due to public officers from succession assets when an indigent party is permitted to litigate without prepaying costs.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 29, 2025 · House May 22, 2025

How they voted

36–0

Passed · 1 other

Total votes 37

Apr 29, 2025

D Democratic11

11 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican26

25 Yea 1

96% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

May 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.

lower

May 13, 2025

Introduced

Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.

lower

May 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.

lower

May 5, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Apr 29, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

upper

Apr 23, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported with amendments.

upper

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

upper

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors