---
type: "Bill"
title: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the recusal of judges"
description: "CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the recusal of judges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 39"
citation: "Louisiana HB 39 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tanner Magee"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e89cb434-9f92-4db9-8669-373f1f4210ca"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239823"
source_hash: "822a4008bf8f69afb29e7ee87b0b0d8e6f21daf73f110a3b4e8c9dbf83cfb694"
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 39 (2021) — CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the recusal of judges

## Version chain

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

1. **HB39 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201412)
2. **HB39 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235051)
3. **HB39 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219250)
4. **HB39 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221625)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #1642, JUD, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1217109)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #1937, JUD, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1219180)
7. **House Floor Amendment, #2380, Carter, Robby, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221352)
8. **Senate Legislative Bureau Amendment, #2375, BUREAU, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1226615)
9. **HB39 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1230959)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#924) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#593) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#246) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tanner Magee — primary (person)
- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
- R. L. Bret Allain, II — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-11** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 143. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-03** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-03** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-03** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-02** Read by title, roll called, yeas 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
- **2021-06-01** Scheduled for concurrence on 06/02/2021.
- **2021-05-27** Received from the Senate with 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 with Legislative Bureau amendments which were read and adopted. 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.
- **2021-05-10** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-05** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-03** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2021.
- **2021-05-03** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-04-29** Reported with amendments (9-0).
- **2021-04-12** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/5/2021.
- **2021-03-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e89cb434-9f92-4db9-8669-373f1f4210ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).