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LA HB178: Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure

Effective Aug 1, 2025 Louisiana · 2025 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB178 · where it stands

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  4. Enacted Complete
  5. Effective Since Aug 1, 2025
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In one paragraph

Louisiana's HB 178 (Act 250 of 2025) revises the Code of Civil Procedure. Article 371 now requires attorneys to exercise reasonable diligence in authenticating evidence that may be false or artificially manipulated. Article 1551 adds pretrial rules: a party with reasonable suspicion that an opponent's exhibits are falsified, including generated by artificial intelligence or altered by any means, must raise it at the pretrial conference or a pretrial admissibility hearing, and a party that knows or has reason to know its own exhibits were falsified or AI-generated must disclose it. Demonstrative exhibits are excluded. Signed June 11, 2025; effective August 1, 2025.

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What it means for business

Litigants and law firms in Louisiana civil cases must check exhibits for AI generation or manipulation and disclose known AI-generated evidence.

Key provisions

  1. C.C.P. Art. 371: attorneys must exercise reasonable diligence in authenticating evidence that may be false or artificially manipulated
  2. C.C.P. Art. 1551: suspected falsified exhibits, including AI-generated ones, must be raised at the pretrial conference or an admissibility hearing
  3. A party that knows or has reason to know its exhibits were falsified or generated by AI must disclose it
  4. Demonstrative exhibits are excluded from the Art. 1551 rules
  5. Effective August 1, 2025

Latest legislative action

Jun 11, 2025. Signed by the Governor June 11, 2025; becomes Act No. 250; effective August 1, 2025

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