---
type: "Bill"
title: "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Provides for the enforcement of electronic signatures by financial institutions"
description: "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Provides for the enforcement of electronic signatures by financial institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 722"
citation: "Louisiana HB 722 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory A. Miller"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-16"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10b8b0c9-7b8b-443d-9284-64172bf6d597"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238624"
source_hash: "a746a4b6ca88c8da9d275a6c9b5e9e38e4ef3551863f2af0eb6591659155cbe0"
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 722 (2020) — FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Provides for the enforcement of electronic signatures by financial institutions

## Version chain

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

1. **HB722 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1166184)
2. **HB722 Act 109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1180967)
3. **HB722 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1169085)
4. **HB722 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173302)
5. **House Floor Amendment, #2028, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172817)
6. **HB722 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176308)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#353) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 722 BY MILLER, G. (#138) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gregory A. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-09** Effective date: 08/01/20.
- **2020-06-09** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 109. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-27** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2020-05-26** Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/20.
- **2020-05-13** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-07** Reported favorably (14-0).
- **2020-03-31** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10b8b0c9-7b8b-443d-9284-64172bf6d597`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).