---
type: "Bill"
title: "COURTS/CRIMINAL: Provides for electronic filing in criminal cases"
description: "COURTS/CRIMINAL: Provides for electronic filing in criminal cases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 507"
citation: "Louisiana HB 507 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Crews"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-02"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5660c0a-84b0-4b05-b7c0-258aec7c104c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=240461"
source_hash: "34a9b33f2ef9c5f6e39810c9ce124e49dea51227eb8902d12c130281be471be1"
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 507 (2021) — COURTS/CRIMINAL: Provides for electronic filing in criminal cases

## Version chain

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

1. **HB507 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1211645)
2. **HB507 Act 341** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1235670)
3. **HB507 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1221840)
4. **HB507 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1232965)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#455) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#854) — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raymond Crews — primary (person)
- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Candace N. Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Cedric Glover — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debbie Villio — cosponsor (person)
- Dodie Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Ted James — cosponsor (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick D. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy LaCombe — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle M. Green , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Selders — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Schlegel — cosponsor (person)
- Mack Cormier — cosponsor (person)
- Mandie Landry — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Echols — cosponsor (person)
- Ray Garofalo — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
- Wilford Carter , Sr. — cosponsor (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. 341. `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.
- **2021-06-07** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 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** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2021-05-25** Reported favorably.
- **2021-05-18** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C. `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 95, 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 (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.
- **2021-04-02** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Prefiled. `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5660c0a-84b0-4b05-b7c0-258aec7c104c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).