---
type: "Bill"
title: "CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to clerks of court"
description: "CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to clerks of court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 404"
citation: "Louisiana HB 404 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2430754f-e9a2-4f2d-93d3-69152d8554b3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238078"
source_hash: "dd0eee72d6a42b25bc66d126b6afe7cccf110f46ac2401a9b35287e2f5e0bc07"
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 404 (2020) — CLERKS OF COURT: Provides relative to clerks of court

## Version chain

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

1. **HB404 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162332)
2. **HB404 Act 264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1182341)
3. **HB404 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165522)
4. **HB404 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170429)
5. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #734, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165635)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1628, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174027)
7. **HB404 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1178365)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#644) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#305) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#29) — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 264. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for concurrence on 05/31/20.
- **2020-05-22** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2020-05-21** The amended bill was 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 with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. 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, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, 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`
- **2020-02-27** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2430754f-e9a2-4f2d-93d3-69152d8554b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).