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+type: "Bill"
+title: "COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)"
+description: "COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 142"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 142 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Carter"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e955acd-531c-4e23-93f0-f7d20a076ed8"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244434"
+source_hash: "a225e198319bdc5cf31b5f6f039eb2c00d53bd9289508a43ca9508336a756bf9"
+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 142 (2023) — COURTS: Authorizes the utilization of court reporters licensed in another state in certain circumstances. (8/1/23)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB142 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1309218)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #2992, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331557)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #3545, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325726)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3547, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325755)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3584, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326051)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #3896, Orgeron, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1328501)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #4052, Jordan, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329751)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #4102, Orgeron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1330033)
+9. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2256, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326265)
+10. **SB142 Act 326** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332544)
+11. **SB142 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315445)
+12. **SB142 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316732)
+13. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1025, Carter, Gary, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1316699)
+14. **SB142 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331893)
+
+## Votes
+
+- REJECT (#904) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#997) — **56–45** (pass) · lower
+- ADOPT (#1016) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#144) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1215) — **83–11** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Carter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-12** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-12** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 326. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2023-06-08** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-08** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2023-06-08** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2023-06-08** Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 83, nays 11. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee report received.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** Senate conference committee members appointed: Carter, Peacock, and Harris.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Jordan, Gaines, and Hughes.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice of Senate rejecting House amendments.
+- **2023-06-06** Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and rejected by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays.
+- **2023-06-05** Received from the House with amendments. `receipt`
+- **2023-06-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 56, nays 45. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-05** Called from the calendar.
+- **2023-06-05** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
+- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
+- **2023-05-31** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-30** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-25** Reported with amendments (6-3). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-01** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended. 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`
+- **2023-04-26** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-25** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** 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/7e955acd-531c-4e23-93f0-f7d20a076ed8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
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