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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)"
+description: "PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 201"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 201 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Hewitt"]
+version_count: 17
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-03-31"
+last_action: "2023-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/928f595a-ff02-4648-a613-ab967b70e238"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=244625"
+source_hash: "56d8d32c65e3a1cc37e1d90acc009a74ed5adb0febddc08e1627836d4b404fcd"
+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 201 (2023) — PUBLIC MEETINGS: Provides for meetings of boards and commissions via electronic means. (8/1/23) (EN SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB201 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310014)
+2. **Conference Committee Report, #2977, House Adopted, Senate Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331495)
+3. **House Committee Amendment, #2965, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1322335)
+4. **House Committee Amendment, #3256, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324132)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #3411, H&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324839)
+6. **House Committee Amendment, #3441, H&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325142)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #3447, Ivey, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1324998)
+8. **House Floor Amendment, #3592, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1326034)
+9. **House Floor Amendment, #4064, Stefanski, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1329796)
+10. **House Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2131, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1325293)
+11. **SB201 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1332592)
+12. **SB201 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1313033)
+13. **SB201 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1315765)
+14. **Senate Committee Amendment, #423, S&G, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1310441)
+15. **Senate Committee Amendment, #623, S&G, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1312999)
+16. **Senate Floor Amendment, #719, Hewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1314290)
+17. **SB201 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1331933)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#86) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- CO-AUTHORS (#87) — **15–0** (fail) · upper
+- ADOPT (#1021) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- REJECT (#916) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1221) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#945) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sharon Hewitt — primary (person)
+- Barry Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bob Hensgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fred H. Mills, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Page Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-14** Effective date 8/1/2023.
+- **2023-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 393. `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 96, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
+- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-06-08** Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 38 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: Hewitt, Milligan, and Price.
+- **2023-06-07** Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
+- **2023-06-07** House conferees appointed: Newell, Stefanski, and Gregory Miller.
+- **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 38 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 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2023-06-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 06/05/2023.
+- **2023-05-25** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-24** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2023-05-23** Reported with amendments (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-27** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-26** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2023-04-25** Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2023-04-19** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2023-04-18** Reported with amendments. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-10** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/928f595a-ff02-4648-a613-ab967b70e238`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+