---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides relative to actions of Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget relative to the forty-five day close period. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
description: "APPROPRIATIONS: Provides relative to actions of Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget relative to the forty-five day close period. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 503"
citation: "Louisiana SB 503 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mack Bodi White, Jr."]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-03-31"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f86b0f50-969c-464d-96bf-68c6a1c75fc7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238846"
source_hash: "4472f6db484fadb51a4f5e3c9f4e1da81042daaf1b02d6090a16f07a2ed4e583"
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 503 (2020) — APPROPRIATIONS: Provides relative to actions of Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget relative to the forty-five day close period. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **SB503 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1168256)
2. **House Committee Amendment, #2090, APP, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173234)
3. **House Committee Amendment, #2173, APP, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1173777)
4. **SB503 Act 48** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1179931)
5. **SB503 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170910)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1144, FNCE, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1170565)
7. **SB503 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1177168)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#445) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#487) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#149) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mack Bodi White, Jr. — 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. 48. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-01** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-01** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2020-05-29** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2020-05-28** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2020-05-27** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2020-05-27** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2020-05-27** Called from the calendar.
- **2020-05-27** Read by title, returned to the calendar.
- **2020-05-22** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/27/20.
- **2020-05-21** Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2020-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2020-05-18** Reported with amendments (16-0). 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 Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-12** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2020-05-11** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Read by title; Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2020-05-04** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-31** Introduced in the Senate. Read by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f86b0f50-969c-464d-96bf-68c6a1c75fc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).