---
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 396"
citation: "Louisiana HB 396 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Turner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aeb058db-00cb-4b40-850b-f81e027f1e10"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240308"
source_hash: "a6ea1356b394cbc26fde9d87f346a3258b58014f28268ed93ea423fe986a389e"
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 396 (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. **HB396 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210613)
2. **HB396 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235548)
3. **HB396 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221794)
4. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2570, JUDB, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227774)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #2599, JUDB, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1227983)
6. **HB396 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232527)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#706) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1018) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#451) — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-14** Effective date: 08/01/2021.
- **2021-06-14** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 311. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-09** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2021-06-08** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2021-06-07** Read by title, roll called, yeas 100, 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** The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 34 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** Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported with amendments.
- **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, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, 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, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably (9-0).
- **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.
- **2021-04-01** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `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/aeb058db-00cb-4b40-850b-f81e027f1e10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).