---
type: "Bill"
title: "JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to the election of judges in the 14th JDC"
description: "JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to the election of judges in the 14th JDC"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 62"
citation: "Louisiana HB 62 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilford Carter , Sr."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-13"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/459586b8-e868-439d-b5a1-c8c6316f95de"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237485"
source_hash: "7156bb869d54d669819f5e225fb7ba4f0471713639893ff646f966bcc5990a0a"
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 62 (2020) — JUDGES/DISTRICT: Provides relative to the election of judges in the 14th JDC

## Version chain

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

1. **HB62 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1154570)
2. **HB62 Act 126** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181434)
3. **HB62 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165538)
4. **HB62 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170584)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1100, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165215)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1132, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165521)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #1574, Dwight, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170101)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #735, Horton, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165636)
9. **HB62 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1175260)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#291) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#22) — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilford Carter , Sr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 06/09/2020.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 126. `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.
- **2020-05-21** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-20** 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 A. `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 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, 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.
- **2020-02-13** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/459586b8-e868-439d-b5a1-c8c6316f95de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).