---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans. (gov sig) (EN -$32,500 LF EX See Note)"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans. (gov sig) (EN -$32,500 LF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Louisiana SB 186 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Harris"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-26"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6de8851b-55c9-4e73-88d7-9d88c8876f00"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237867"
source_hash: "574dc4648eb8b291e8ffcffe963127385cae2dfa3319b0d176a59578ea4235f9"
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 SB 186 (2020) — COURTS: Provides relative to the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans. (gov sig) (EN -$32,500 LF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB186 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1160737)
2. **SB186 Act 37** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179873)
3. **SB186 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1171824)
4. **SB186 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172638)
5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #1456, Harris, Jimmy, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1172303)
6. **SB186 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1176993)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#525) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#204) — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-04** Effective date 6/4/2020.
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 37. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-31** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/28/20.
- **2020-05-22** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-20** Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-18** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-15** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2020-05-14** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title; ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6de8851b-55c9-4e73-88d7-9d88c8876f00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).