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+type: "Bill"
+title: "NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury"
+description: "NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 44"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 44 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-07"
+last_action: "2019-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63ec21bc-4a4a-494e-98ae-7e187355b277"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235674"
+source_hash: "b7f089c47df6a91e19194d07fcf3233e714bfa2f720d0e2898099c07803b20b7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 44 (2019) — NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB44 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114343)
+2. **HB44 Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139020)
+3. **HB44 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125743)
+4. **HB44 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136008)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#53) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#405) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Bagley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
+- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
+- **2019-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2019-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-04-25** Called from the calendar.
+- **2019-04-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2019-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/19.
+- **2019-04-23** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-04-22** Reported favorably (5-0).
+- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-08** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2019.
+- **2019-03-07** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-07** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63ec21bc-4a4a-494e-98ae-7e187355b277`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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