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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)"
+description: "COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 115"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 115 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick Connick"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd1a2a31-6174-4a7e-b15e-5e0ac71cb3f6"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237665"
+source_hash: "7480c6ff06d3f49fad81cb0aadcaff111399955523d7515ba3f5c5420a409b41"
+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 SB 115 (2020) — COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to advertisements for legal services. (1/1/21)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB115 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1158582)
+2. **House Committee Amendment, #2289, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174136)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2347, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174448)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #2677, Magee, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176316)
+5. **SB115 Act 231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182285)
+6. **SB115 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171826)
+7. **SB115 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172652)
+8. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1475, Connick, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172388)
+9. **SB115 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178049)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#203) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR (#604) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#518) — **69–26** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick Connick — primary (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Reich Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Beau Beaullieu — cosponsor (person)
+- Beryl Amedee — cosponsor (person)
+- Blake Miguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Deshotel — cosponsor (person)
+- Foy Gadberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabe Firment — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary L. Smith, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerome Zeringue — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- John Stefanski — cosponsor (person)
+- Jonathan Goudeau — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Marino — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy Edmonston — cosponsor (person)
+- Lance Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Frieman — cosponsor (person)
+- Les Farnum — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Neil Riser — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicholas Muscarello — cosponsor (person)
+- Paula Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillip DeVillier — cosponsor (person)
+- Polly Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond Crews — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhonda Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman Q. Mack — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Tony Bacala — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy D. Romero — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-11** Effective date 1/1/2021.
+- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 231. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2020-05-29** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2020-05-28** Received from the House with amendments.
+- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 26. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
+- **2020-05-22** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported with amendments (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2020-05-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2020-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-24** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd1a2a31-6174-4a7e-b15e-5e0ac71cb3f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+