---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil protective order cases. (gov sig)"
description: "CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil protective order cases. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 71"
citation: "Louisiana SB 71 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Troy Carter"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7f54319-f351-4953-bcca-bacbe0f08c65"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235921"
source_hash: "8d09d84a9d9fd7148a7fb9a9f829ad0d21a1ef3a7a08fe93a0c57a599e01c25a"
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 71 (2019) — CIVIL PROCEDURE: Provides relative to interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil protective order cases. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB71 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118892)
2. **SB71 Act 406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144790)
3. **SB71 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124825)
4. **SB71 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1126107)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #636, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1124773)
6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #798, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125854)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #736, Martiny, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1125591)
8. **SB71 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1137768)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#544) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#83) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Troy Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Effective date 6/20/2019.
- **2019-06-20** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 406. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2019-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2019-05-27** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2019-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/19.
- **2019-05-08** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2019-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2019-05-06** Reported favorably (6-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2019-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2019-04-22** 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`
- **2019-04-17** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2019-04-16** Reported with amendments.
- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** 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/d7f54319-f351-4953-bcca-bacbe0f08c65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).