---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS: Provides relative to the online dispute resolution pilot project for certain cases filed in the City Court of East St. Tammany"
description: "COURTS: Provides relative to the online dispute resolution pilot project for certain cases filed in the City Court of East St. Tammany"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 267"
citation: "Louisiana HB 267 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary DuBuisson"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2f11b8c-acd3-4a67-85a5-84f05931b274"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240122"
source_hash: "afb01a8ce3e85aaa16213d43622cfeac95d0bf0fd54d56414ae9c3dded127246"
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 267 (2021) — COURTS: Provides relative to the online dispute resolution pilot project for certain cases filed in the City Court of East St. Tammany

## Version chain

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

1. **HB267 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1208396)
2. **HB267 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235477)
3. **HB267 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219249)
4. **HB267 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1222923)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1000, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210548)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1970, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219213)
7. **House Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #1372, Horton, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219324)
8. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2557, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227730)
9. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2975, JUDA, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1229914)
10. **Senate Committee Amendment, #3060, JUDA, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230462)
11. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #3256, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231168)
12. **HB267 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1233524)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1101) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#312) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#894) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mary DuBuisson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-15** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-15** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 281. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-09** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-08** Read by title, roll called, yeas 99, nays 0. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
- **2021-06-07** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/08/2021.
- **2021-06-07** Received from the Senate with amendments.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-12** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-10** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (12-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-03-29** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2f11b8c-acd3-4a67-85a5-84f05931b274`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).