---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Establishes an exception to public records requirements for certain information by the secretary of state"
description: "PUBLIC RECORDS: Establishes an exception to public records requirements for certain information by the secretary of state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 373"
citation: "Louisiana HB 373 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stuart J. Bishop"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50b1cf38-07b1-49a4-9522-a9cfa5f84ab8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240285"
source_hash: "ede5d4822dd4fb02449d05ba248d6fbe139856e66690f4db844873c645bea1c0"
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 373 (2021) — PUBLIC RECORDS: Establishes an exception to public records requirements for certain information by the secretary of state

## Version chain

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

1. **HB373 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210485)
2. **HB373 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235312)
3. **HB373 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1216379)
4. **Senate Floor Amendment, #3141, Foil, Withdrawn** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230714)
5. **HB373 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1231624)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#727) — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#111) — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stuart J. Bishop — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 06/11/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 231. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-08** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-08** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-07** 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 34 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-01** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-05-27** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-26** Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
- **2021-04-29** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-04-28** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/28/2021.
- **2021-04-26** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-22** Reported favorably (11-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 4/2/2021.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50b1cf38-07b1-49a4-9522-a9cfa5f84ab8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).