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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+description: "COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 270"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 270 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cleo Fields"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-02-27"
+last_action: "2020-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e8a95f6-07e8-4ae8-a315-e3b958f2d70c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238042"
+source_hash: "925a9cbff69a24a2f5e6fb904ee64b036504f115a7666fa0111d8b0c81af0010"
+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 270 (2020) — COURTS: Increases the daily compensation paid to jurors in civil cases. (1/1/21) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB270 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162159)
+2. **House Floor Amendment, #2736, Seabaugh, Rejected** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176780)
+3. **House Floor Amendment, #2741, Jordan, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176797)
+4. **House Floor Amendment, #2755, Seabaugh, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176886)
+5. **House Floor Amendment, #2758, Frieman, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176898)
+6. **SB270 Act 237** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182291)
+7. **SB270 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171821)
+8. **SB270 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172650)
+9. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1453, Fields, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172298)
+10. **SB270 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178008)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AMENDMENT # 2758 BY FRIEMAN (#530) — **66–29** (pass) · lower
+- AMENDMENT # 2736 BY SEABAUGH (#529) — **44–54** (fail) · lower
+- CONCUR (#610) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#531) — **66–32** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#206) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cleo Fields — primary (person)
+- Aimee Adatto Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Denise Marcelle — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Travis Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Dustin Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
+- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
+- Ken Brass — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenny Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
+- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
+- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Matthew Willard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pat Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
+- Randal L. Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Lyons — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Samuel Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Tammy Phelps — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent J. Pierre — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilford Carter , Sr. — 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. 237. `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 36 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 66, nays 32. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
+- **2020-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). 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 33 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`
+- **2020-02-27** 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/2e8a95f6-07e8-4ae8-a315-e3b958f2d70c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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