---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for certain records management services. (8/1/19)"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for certain records management services. (8/1/19)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "Louisiana SB 57 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Walsworth"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79690afc-0144-4570-ba3f-96cd60c11fd2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235843"
source_hash: "1ed1eb513f9619f1423e2e543b79c2bcba4b31d3b80fb845be0d4923214372f9"
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 57 (2019) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Provides for certain records management services. (8/1/19)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB57 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118347)
2. **SB57 Act 46** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1141910)
3. **SB57 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1132470)
4. **SB57 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1138625)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#622) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#313) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Walsworth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-01** Effective date 8/1/2019.
- **2019-06-01** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 46. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/19.
- **2019-05-20** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-16** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably (9-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-05-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-05-13** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-05-08** Reported favorably.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** 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/79690afc-0144-4570-ba3f-96cd60c11fd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).