---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC"
description: "JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 53"
citation: "Louisiana HB 53 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick O. Jefferson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-12"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7472e727-8093-439f-b434-d74802a607b2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237469"
source_hash: "84944d3b18251f9ae86a16c81e449366aebf3d319acd7b8b12a267c8ec321dcf"
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 53 (2020) — JUDGES: Provides relative to the election of judges for the 2nd JDC

## Version chain

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

1. **HB53 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154204)
2. **HB53 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181899)
3. **HB53 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165549)
4. **HB53 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1174802)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1142, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165513)
6. **House Floor Amendment, #1936, Jefferson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172086)
7. **HB53 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176722)

## Votes

- HB 53 BY JEFFERSON (#235) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#404) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick O. Jefferson — primary (person)
- Jack McFarland — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 166. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-29** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-26** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-26** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-21** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-20** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2020-05-20** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/20.
- **2020-05-15** Notice given.
- **2020-05-07** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-03-16** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/07/20.
- **2020-03-12** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended.
- **2020-03-12** Reported with amendments (13-0).
- **2020-03-09** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/14/2020.
- **2020-02-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7472e727-8093-439f-b434-d74802a607b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).