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+type: "Bill"
+title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2022-2023"
+description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2022-2023"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 437"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 437 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jerome Zeringue"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2022-03-02"
+last_action: "2022-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1399b5b-52fd-44e8-acc4-8170f60b41c6"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242115"
+source_hash: "b88084f65d937ea5cbf39495c76e830af80039d9366fed19f1d88aac6db29525"
+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 437 (2022) — APPROPRIATIONS: Appropriates funds for the expenses of the judiciary for Fiscal Year 2022-2023
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB437 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1254888)
+2. **HB437 Act 168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1286120)
+3. **HB437 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270475)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #2418, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1268782)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #2724, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1270441)
+6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3083, FNCE, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278795)
+7. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3187, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278810)
+8. **HB437 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280982)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#414) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#998) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#715) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jerome Zeringue — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-30** Effective date: 07/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-30** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 168. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-20** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-23** Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/20/2022.
+- **2022-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-19** Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
+- **2022-05-19** Rules suspended, called out of its regular order.
+- **2022-05-18** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/19/2022.
+- **2022-05-18** Received from the Senate with amendments.
+- **2022-05-18** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-15** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-04-26** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-25** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-04-21** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-04-19** Made Special Order of the day No. 3 for 04/21/2022.
+- **2022-04-19** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-04-18** Reported with amendments (16-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
+- **2022-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1399b5b-52fd-44e8-acc4-8170f60b41c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+