---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to in forma pauperis proceedings"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to in forma pauperis proceedings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 108"
citation: "Louisiana HB 108 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Larvadain III"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11"
last_action: "2021-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a256c944-fecf-461a-b1e1-3a6a80cfb0b4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239907"
source_hash: "782b96ad9c8d3680a6c485393b4c94ec0330cec7bbe013352cd379dcd02194b0"
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 108 (2021) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides with respect to in forma pauperis proceedings

## Version chain

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

1. **HB108 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1203508)
2. **HB108 Act 416** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235917)
3. **HB108 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1214006)
4. **HB108 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229426)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#20) — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#595) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Larvadain III — primary (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick O. Jefferson — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-21** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-21** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 416. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-02** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-01** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-01** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-05-27** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-19** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-18** Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-20** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/19/2021.
- **2021-04-15** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-14** Reported favorably (12-0-1).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/12/2021.
- **2021-03-12** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a256c944-fecf-461a-b1e1-3a6a80cfb0b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).