---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees for services by constables and marshals"
description: "COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees for services by constables and marshals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Louisiana HB 215 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenny Cox"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50e79c65-12e7-4bb0-b19a-15f9d93f7ff5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240057"
source_hash: "bf57dcba046af4ce1646822c4df2d258b978a9707679d61fd3dea9d9aab35222"
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 215 (2021) — COURTS/COURT COSTS: Provides relative to fees for services by constables and marshals

## Version chain

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

1. **HB215 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206991)
2. **HB215 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235707)
3. **HB215 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221981)
4. **HB215 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224742)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2311, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221069)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2435, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221946)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1770, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222235)
8. **HB215 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231301)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#442) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#701) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kenny Cox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Effective date: 06/16/2021.
- **2021-06-16** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 374. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-06** Signed by the President of the Senate on 6/3/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-26** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-17** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-13** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-10** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/13/2021.
- **2021-05-10** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/26/2021.
- **2021-03-25** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50e79c65-12e7-4bb0-b19a-15f9d93f7ff5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).