---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
description: "CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 216"
citation: "Louisiana HB 216 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Royce Duplessis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e78e5c23-22e0-4620-b81d-871b8bb788af"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240058"
source_hash: "ec4bb3f228d4dcc1523539c930aec3389023724ba890bb59049a8336a9d04167"
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 216 (2021) — CHILDREN: Provides relative to the imposition of court costs in proceedings involving children (EN DECREASE SG RV See Note)

## Version chain

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

1. **HB216 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1206990)
2. **HB216 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1234508)
3. **HB216 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222007)
4. **HB216 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224775)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2238, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1220663)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2440, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221954)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2546, Duplessis, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222514)
8. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1767, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222232)
9. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3168, Henry, Cameron, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230845)
10. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2743, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1228791)
11. **HB216 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232501)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#702) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#443) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1014) — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Royce Duplessis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-10** Effective date: 06/10/2021.
- **2021-06-10** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 123. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 94, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-03** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/07/2021.
- **2021-06-03** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-05-27** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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/e78e5c23-22e0-4620-b81d-871b8bb788af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).