---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides that domicile of the Department of State is in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)"
description: "STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides that domicile of the Department of State is in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Louisiana SB 42 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mack Bodi White, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-17"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f79f2d94-fa8c-4fa0-9d04-0f99e080c99f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=237512"
source_hash: "e5f0c730b092c3f4f0f7cb358f6dae39325b4d61f3b99feb1e1dac4f058224ac"
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 42 (2020) — STATE DEPARTMENT: Provides that domicile of the Department of State is in East Baton Rouge Parish. (gov sig)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB42 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1155323)
2. **SB42 Act 209** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1181981)
3. **SB42 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1165249)
4. **SB42 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177622)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#558) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#86) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-11** Effective date 6/11/2020.
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 209. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 6/2/2020. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-31** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2020-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/20.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-27** Rules suspended.
- **2020-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Reported favorably (11-0-1). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2020-05-13** Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-03-11** Reported favorably.
- **2020-03-09** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f79f2d94-fa8c-4fa0-9d04-0f99e080c99f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).