---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the waiver of certain court costs and fees (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
description: "JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the waiver of certain court costs and fees (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 417"
citation: "Louisiana HB 417 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Ted James"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c73bd810-27bf-4387-8f7c-f461fc1b718b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238118"
source_hash: "6b0e020ed6d23aa8c98462bc0180d56c2b91dfffed842f25a82d30034d24c3d4"
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 417 (2020) — JUVENILE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the waiver of certain court costs and fees (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB417 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1162547)
2. **HB417 Act 146** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181455)
3. **HB417 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172348)
4. **HB417 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179048)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#317) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASS TO THIRD READING (#740) — **86–5** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 vote (#716) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#717) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward Ted James — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 146. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-03** 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.
- **2020-06-01** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-06-01** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-06-01** Read by title. The Senate approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day by a vote of 30 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-06-01** Notice House approved consideration after 6:00 p.m. on the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-31** By a vote of 86 yeas, 5 nays, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, the House approved consideration after the 82nd calendar day.
- **2020-05-29** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-29** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-28** Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary B.
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended. Recalled from Committee.
- **2020-05-25** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/20.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-15** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **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/c73bd810-27bf-4387-8f7c-f461fc1b718b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).