---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional amount in dispute for the City Court of Sulphur"
description: "COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional amount in dispute for the City Court of Sulphur"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 45"
citation: "Louisiana HB 45 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les Farnum"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/618999ae-953c-4357-9b44-3c2ef9e8ff07"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=239830"
source_hash: "37ef563f47a3cd7ccb9a4de1569918564d7ca4e2d4f9786bbe660c267762e670"
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 45 (2021) — COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to the jurisdictional amount in dispute for the City Court of Sulphur

## Version chain

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

1. **HB45 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1201630)
2. **HB45 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235433)
3. **HB45 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1224560)
4. **HB45 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232942)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#536) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#802) — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Les Farnum — 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. 251. `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** Received from the Senate without amendments.
- **2021-06-06** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2021-06-02** Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-24** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
- **2021-05-19** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/19/2021.
- **2021-05-17** Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2021-05-13** Reported favorably (10-0).
- **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`
- **2021-03-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/618999ae-953c-4357-9b44-3c2ef9e8ff07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).