---
type: "Bill"
title: "CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to certain recordkeeping by the clerks of court"
description: "CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to certain recordkeeping by the clerks of court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Louisiana HB 265 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicholas Muscarello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5efc1dfe-2d02-45f2-92b3-28766564c346"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237824"
source_hash: "f1a72b03b7a8e1b2fad8f6771a2d18245f94638c3c08f9d9e461e245ab6ba5b6"
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 265 (2020) — CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to certain recordkeeping by the clerks of court

## Version chain

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

1. **HB265 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160145)
2. **HB265 Act 25** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180224)
3. **HB265 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165516)
4. **HB265 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175513)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#27) — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#302) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nicholas Muscarello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 25. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-29** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-25** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-22** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-22** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-19** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-07** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-12** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-12** Reported favorably (12-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5efc1dfe-2d02-45f2-92b3-28766564c346`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).