---
type: "Bill"
title: "NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury"
description: "NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 44"
citation: "Louisiana HB 44 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Bagley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63ec21bc-4a4a-494e-98ae-7e187355b277"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235674"
source_hash: "b7f089c47df6a91e19194d07fcf3233e714bfa2f720d0e2898099c07803b20b7"
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 44 (2019) — NOTARIES: Provides for ex officio notaries public with certain limited authority for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB44 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1114343)
2. **HB44 Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139020)
3. **HB44 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125743)
4. **HB44 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1136008)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#53) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#405) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Bagley — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2019.
- **2019-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 3. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-23** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-21** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-15** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2019-04-25** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Called from the calendar.
- **2019-04-25** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2019-04-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/25/19.
- **2019-04-23** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-04-22** Reported favorably (5-0).
- **2019-04-08** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/8/2019.
- **2019-03-07** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63ec21bc-4a4a-494e-98ae-7e187355b277`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).